My Hair Power

Thin Space

Recipe for Disaster

The Fantora Family Photographs (Puffin Fiction)

A Lesson Learned

A Smile

The Kissing Game

Kinks and Curls: A Tale of Self-Love

Brinkley Yearbooks

Everyone knows the most stressful day of middle school is picture day ! And that's exactly where this yearbook-worthy graphic novel series opener begins: with reinventing yourself, drama, popularity, and the friends who see you through.

Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don’t count, of course.) 

But enough is enough. This year, she’s taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid.

Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their next big moment—from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete championships. She hardly even has time for her friends anymore. It’s exactly how she dreamed of reinventing herself…right?

In the tradition of modern classics like Vera Brosgol's Be Prepared , Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward , and Kayla Miller's Click , Picture Day brings answers to perennial questions of what it means to be true to yourself—and a true friend.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

My Hair Power

Timsha R. Batiste, 2020

Thin Space

Jody Casella, 2013

Recipe for Disaster

Jim Benton, 2020

The Fantora Family Photographs (Puffin Fiction)

Adèle Geras, Tony Ross, 1993

A Lesson Learned

Patricia Lichty Neely, 2018

A Smile

Isaiah L Allen, 2023

The Kissing Game

Jean Ure, 2014

Kinks and Curls: A Tale of Self-Love

Abbey Campbell Cook, Nardia Campbell Spence, 2023