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Chiggers by Hope Larson is a graphic novel geared for the young adult crowd and in all actuality, I don’t have much to say about it, so this will be a pretty short review.

Chiggers is about a group of girls who go to summer camp.  It’s the same camp that Abby goes to every summer and she’s excited.  But her excitement ends when her friend Rose is to busy being a cabin assistant to hang out with her, her friends talk behind her back and everybody thinks that the cabinmate she gets along best with is annoying.  Throw in some lightening strikes, romantic love interest, and elfish daydreams and there you go.

Honestly, this graphic novel was confusing. I could not keep the characters straight and by the end of the book I still didn’t know who was talking (my children’s lit book club members all said the same thing).  I really didn’t care for the illustrations.  They would have been fine if only there wasn’t really ugly lines under all the characters eyes.  Case in point:  page 81 rhrough 85.  Yeah, I know they are supposed to be tired but still these panels ruined whatever redeeming qualities the other panels had.

I honestly don’t know what the appeal of Chiggers is to the actual intended audience, young adult girls, but this mama just didn’t get it.  And I even went to girl’s camp four years in a row as a teen.  What can I say, I just can’t like everything I read.

Hope Larson website.

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