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    All's Faire in Middle School
    All's Faire in Middle School
    All's Faire in Middle School
    Audiobook2 hours

    All's Faire in Middle School

    Written by Victoria Jamieson

    Narrated by Laura Knight Keating, Stina Nielsen, Susan Bennett and

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of the Newbery Honor winner Roller Girl, a heartwarming graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and life at the Renaissance Faire that's perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier. Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she'll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind-she'll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it's not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school. Impy falls in with a group of girls who seem really nice.until they don't. For the first time, she's embarrassed of her thrift shop apparel, her family's unusual lifestyle, and their small, messy apartment. And when her new friends encourage her to do something mean, Impy goes along with it. Before long, Impy doesn't even recognize herself. Is she the dragon in her own story or the heroic knight? As she did in Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson perfectly-and authentically-captures the bittersweetness of middle school life with humor, warmth, and understanding.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 29, 2018
    ISBN9781501996313
    All's Faire in Middle School
    Author

    Victoria Jamieson

    Victoria Jamieson received her BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. She worked as a children's book designer before moving to Portland and becoming a freelance illustrator. She has also worked as a portrait artist aboard a cruise ship, and has lived in Australia, Italy, and Canada. She maintains a not-so-secret identity as Winnie the Pow, a skater with the Rose City Rollers roller derby league. She is the author of The Great Pet Escape.

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    • 5/5
      This is great! As a renaissance faire loving, medieval recreating, sword fighting girl, this is the book I wish I had had growing up -- not least because as an adult I recognize the adults in this book -- they are also of my tribe. So I love all the trappings of it, but it's also a really excellent growing-up story, particularly in the realm of losing one's way and finding ways to make amends. Very nicely done.
    • 4/5
      This didn't quite hook me in the way Roller Girl did, but by the end I was invested. Jamieson gets middle school so well...I identified with so much of this.
    • 4/5
      Imogene a.k.a. Impy, embarks on two big milestones in her life, becoming a squire at the renaissance faire where her family works and attending middle-school after previously being home schooled. However, problems at school lead to problems at the faire and at home, too.I loved Impy, in her good moments and the bad, I felt for her throughout, whether attempting to dress like the cool rich girl with much more expensive tastes than Impy could afford or when things went wrong between her and her sibling. I liked how imperfect Impy is and how realistically paced her growth seemed, everything felt like it happened gradually like it would in life, her increasing anxiety over fitting in at school, how that leads to mistakes and lashing out, all of it had an authentic relatable quality to it.
    • 4/5
      This was a great book! The illustrations were awesome and the story was just as good! Imogene was homeschooled but decided to go to middle school. Her and her family work at the Ren Faire and its a great contrast between her acting in the fair and her trials and tribulations in school (ones we all had to deal with... shudder). All in all a great read and highly recommended from school age and up.
    • 4/5
      I loved Jamieson’s previous comic, Roller Girl, and was excited to read this one. Jamieson portrays young girls so great and the Renaissance Faire setting was such fun! Imogene’s entering middle school after years of homeschooling, and her adjustment, the peer pressure was very realistic. I loved her relationship with her family and it was just such a great read!
    • 4/5
      A great depiction (both through works and sequential art) of both middle school and a Ren Faire.
    • 4/5
      Imogene, or Impy, has been homeschooled all her life but decides to attend a public middle school. She and her family have been actively involved with the Renaissance Faire for years; Impy regards everyone there part of her "fairemily." But the new school year and Faire season brings challenges for this young teen: new friends who turn out to be mean girls, trying but failing to fit in with the middle school scene, and taking on a higher-profile role at the Faire. When a series of actions lead to Impy being ostracized by her own family, she agonizes, "How could I explain what had happened...when I didn't really understand it myself?" As with "Roller Girl," Jamieson knows how to get to the core of a teenage girl's insecurities and lay them out in a way that target readers will appreciate and understand. Spot-on treatment of teenage angst.
    • 5/5
      Thank you so much to the publisher and Goodreads for a free copy of All's Faire in Middle School!

      So, Impy's about to have her first day of school. Pretty standard, right? Except that her whole life up until this point, she's been homeschool and immersed in Renaissance Faire life. Soon, not only does she have to worry about her squire duties, she's also concerned about having the right clothes and figuring out the rules of middle school social circles.

      If you've ever been to a Ren Faire, you've probably felt the magic, the opportunity to step out of your everyday life. Victoria Jamieson captures that perfectly... just like she also captures the pressure to fit in and the terrible things it can make us do.

      The art is beautiful; the plot deals with bullying in a wonderful (and non-preachy) way; the Faire details are so vivid; I teared up more than I expected to. Will be recommending this one every chance I get.
    • 5/5
      Imogene has been homeschooled so far, spending her time in the shop that her mother runs at a local renaissance faire, but now she's starting middle school and needs to learn how to negotiate the strange land of the pre-teen social scene.This one is just as fun and sweet at Jamieson's first graphic novel, Roller Girl. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Middle grade graphic novel about Imogene, a young girl whose family works the local renaissance faire and who is about to go to middle school after being homeschooled. Just like [Roller Girl], this is a delight about growing up, friendship, and finding your way. The focus on a piece of culture that may be new to much of the audience (roller derby, ren faire) and the colorful art make Jamieson's books that much more special. Recommended.
    • 5/5
      I was so happy when I found out I won a copy of this on Goodreads. It sounded like something I would like and I couldn’t wait to read it. Even though I pretty much knew I would enjoy it, I didn’t realize just how much I would. I absolutely loved it.I loved the fact that Impys parents worked at a Renaissance Faire. I have wanted to go to one since I was kid, but we just don’t have them around where I live. So to be able to read about it was so much fun.The characters were all so real and believable. The way Impy reacted to being bullied was realistic. Felix was adorable and Cussie was hilarious.I just couldn’t put this graphic novel down. I couldn’t get enough and I can promise you I will be reading this one again. I will also be picking up Roller Girl as soon as possible.
    • 4/5
      Imogene has been homeschooled her whole life, which works well with her parents' unusual work schedule as actors at the local Renaissance Faire. Now that she's old enough to start apprenticing as a proper Renaissance actor herself, Imogene decides to start out her career as a squire with a quest of her own making -- entering into the local junior high school. There she discovers the rules are more complicated than she anticipated and it's more difficult to fit in than she hoped. In many ways, this newest offering from Jamieson is similar to her earlier book Roller Girl -- a story about a middle schooler finding her place in the world, a diverse cast, an unusual hobby that children may not know about, etc. However, this one just wasn't *quite* as good as the first book. Imogene's story reminded me a little too much of a junior high version of the Mean Girls movie with a homeschooler entering school for the first time and falling in with fake friends before becoming a bit of a "mean girl" herself. On the plus side, Imogene (who has always seen herself as the knight, never the princess) learns some important lessons about kindness from the Renaissance princess and works to right her mistakes. The moral is ultimately good, and I like how both the "girly girl" and the "tomboy" roles are seen as having worthy characteristics (i.e., bravery and kindness are both valued).There is a character nicknamed "Cussie" in the book, who is known for her colorful language, and thus a "strumpet" and a "damn" are both dropped in this book. In addition, there's a brief mention of sex as Imogene is exposed to a racy romance novel through her new "friends" at school. Neither is too much of an issue for tween readers, but it makes me hesitate a little for those younger kids who will likely want to pick up this title as well. Once again, Jamieson illustrations are topnotch, walking that line between realistic and cartoonish. They are inviting to young readers and clearly depict the emotions of the characters, as well as conveying the plot.
    • 4/5
      Imogene's family has worked at the Florida Renaissance Faire her whole life, and finally she is old enough (eleven!) to become a squire. She's also old enough to start middle school, which is sort of exciting but also sort of scary, since she's been homeschooled up to this point. Middle school is tricky, with its social rules that seem to keep changing, grumpy teachers, and girls that are nice until one day they're not. When Imogene does something mean in an attempt to fit in, it snowballs into a disaster that touches every part of her life. Maybe she's not the knight who slays the dragon -- maybe she is the dragon.If you like Roller Girl and other graphic novels featuring preteen girls, you should read this. If you like renaissance faires or D&D, you should read this. And if you like stories about navigating middle school and complicated friendships between realistically flawed characters, you should definitely read this. It's a lot of fun, and it made me want to visit the ren faire!