I really likes the art, and it's a wonderful depiction of the world according to a child. Cool memoir. ( )

4.25 stars - uncomfortably close to my own awkward teenage years. The last 10 pages are the best of the collection and really convey the awfulness of girls that age. I don't miss it, but it feels good to laugh at it now. ( )

Read with a fair amount of cringing, knowing exactly where she was coming from. It's a little hard to piece together any sort of narrative--these are a bunch of tiny little snippets, rather than stories or full memories; the book is more montage than memoir. I liked it okay, but wasn't blown away. ( )

http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/11/graphic-novel-monday-escape-from.html ( )

A graphic novel (more like a series of anecdotes) about the childhood and adolescence of a girl who doesn't fit in academically or socially. I had a hard time following this one. It covers ten years or so and I often felt unsure about how old she was supposed to be, which was distracting. I would have liked more of a story thread tying each of the segments together. ( )