Agent: Judith Hansen, Hansen Literary Agency. Though the artwork draws little attention to itself, Telgemeier’s visual storytelling skills are well-honed, and readers will be left wishing for more.

Underneath the immediate problems lies poignant uncertainty about the state of their parents’ marriage. They are sisters, after all. The full-colour graphic novel is perfect for readers who love Dork Diaries but are ready for something more challenging. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Raina Telgemeier is the 1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Awardwinning creator of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, which are all graphic memoirs based on her childhood. “The difference between you and me is, I don’t care.” Like Smile, it’s an alternately poignant and laugh-out-loud funny account of pre-adolescence whose episodes range from small crimes (Raina lying to Amara so she doesn’t have to share her art supplies) to acute crises (Amara’s pet snake Mango on the loose in the family’s VW Microbus). Rainas graphic novels have been nominated for all the major US awards and have received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. Overview Raina Telgemeier's 1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile Raina can't wait to be a big sister. “You ever feel like you just don’t fit in?” Raina asks Amara at a family gathering full of contemptuous teenage cousins.

In this companion to Telgemeier’s Smile, the graphic artist writes about her relationship with her younger sister, Amara, using a summer cross-country trip as narrative scaffolding as she examines the contrast between her childhood wish for a sister and life with a sibling she often can’t fathom-although Amara seems to have uncanny insight into her.

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier