Farm Fun

I Am One of a Kind: Positive Affirmations for Brown Girls

My Hair Power

A Visit to Puerto Rico (Visit To. . ., a

The Koo Koos Nest

Recipe for Disaster

A Lesson Learned

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

Farm Fun

Helen Isaac, 2021

I Am One of a Kind: Positive Affirmations for Brown Girls

Aaliyah Wilson, 2021

My Hair Power

Timsha R. Batiste, 2020

A Visit to Puerto Rico (Visit To. . ., a

Leila Merrell Foster, 2000

The Koo Koos Nest

Kathy Restivo, 2016

Recipe for Disaster

Jim Benton, 2020

A Lesson Learned

Patricia Lichty Neely, 2018

The Fantora Family Photographs (Puffin Fiction)

Adèle Geras, Tony Ross, 1993