Louder Than Words

Making Faces

Mary's Beauty: A Spiritual Outlook on Beauty for Preteens

My Hair Power

This Boy

Thin Space

Act Cool

The Fantora Family Photographs (Puffin Fiction)

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

Louder Than Words

Iris St. Clair, 2014

Making Faces

Joy Richardson, 1997

Mary's Beauty: A Spiritual Outlook on Beauty for Preteens

Rosemarie C Pomilla, 2022

My Hair Power

Timsha R. Batiste, 2020

This Boy

Lauren Myracle, 2020

Thin Space

Jody Casella, 2013

Act Cool

Tobly Mcsmith, 2021

The Fantora Family Photographs (Puffin Fiction)

Adèle Geras, Tony Ross, 1993