This One Summer

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320 pages

English language

Published May 6, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-62672-094-7
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Goodreads:
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4 stars (2 reviews)

This One Summer is a graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki published by First Second Books in 2014. It is a coming of age story about two teenage friends, Rose and Windy, during a summer in Awago, a small beach town. Rose and Windy discover themselves and their sexuality while battling family dynamics and mental disabilities.Due to the content in the novel, This One Summer has also been censored and listed on the American Library Association’s “Top Ten Most Challenged Books” list in 2016 and 2018 for the use of its sexual scenes and mature topics. The novel has also won numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal in 2015.

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reviewed This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki

This One Summer

5 stars

Another banned book. A marvelously evocative story of two friends who see each other during the summers when their families go to the same beach. The storytelling reminded me of being roughly in middle school -- old enough to start catching snatches of conversations among high school kids or among adults, but not always old enough to know what they mean. Beautifully illustrated. This joins the common theme of banned books I've been reading -- they shouldn't be banned!