I had fun reading this story showcasing ghosts, pirates and homeschooling to name a few. Ohh, plus the zombie Theatre. Maggie is going from homeschooling into high school and she is a little nervous. Will she meet friends or won't she. I grew up in a smaller type of town in the south and homeschooling was outside the normal back then and they had a reputation, fair or not, of being a bit odd and different. I didn't think so; they were simply more mature and knew how to behave like a person from

Graphic novels could be the longest on-again-off-again-still-going love affair in my life. Whichever form the tale takes, funny pages, comic book, web, or novel, the art has been a part of my reading life and love as a far back as I can stretch the ‘ole memory. Even before I could truly read, I was flipping through the funny papers with my father, trying to look all grown up, imitating his ruffle-the-paper-grumpiness on Sunday mornings. :) Sooo…Nothing plays with my heartstrings and emotions whi...

In Chuck Klosterman’s delightful book on villains, I Wear The Black Hat, the pop culture critic writes that he sometimes wishes he could just write “I LOVE THIS” or “I HATE THIS” when reviewing certain works of art and leave it at that, not (entirely) out of laziness but because teasing out the reasoning behind it dilutes the purity of his visceral reaction. I’m tempted to just say for this book “I LOVE THIS x 1000!” and it’d be true but probably not that informative!Maggie is about to start her...

NEW GENRE!For me, at least. I've always considered myself an open-minded person, but then I look at my shelves (YA, Aussie YA, Aussie YA, Classic, Generation Kill) and I realize how limited my book choices have been. I read my first Urban Fantasy series this year (Mercy Thompson, baby!) and now with Friends with Boys, I've entered Graphic Novel territory.And I liked it!This is the story of Maggie McKay, a homeschooled girl about to enter the shark tank of high school for the first time. She's de...

Well this was fun! :DI liked the characters: They were all pretty unique, felt original, and nobody felt superfluous.I liked the story: I mean, it was a little bit random, but it was a fun time and it kept me interested the entire way through.I liked the themes: It wasn't a heavy read in any means, but the few things that its as trying to say were clear and nice.I liked the art: It was funky and cool and "hip" (like the kids say now-a-days), and easy to flip through.I, you know, liked it! I defi...

this was a super cute and short graphic novel that I read in like under an hour! three stars because while it was good i was hoping it would be longer!

You can read the entire comic for a limited time at Faith Erin Hicks' website Friends With Boys. Also, reading her creative process at the bottom of this page was pretty cool.Friends With Boys is a web comic (soon to be graphic novel) by Faith Erin Hicks featuring previously home-schooled Maggie McKay's experiences adjusting to public high school, making friends outside her family and oh yeah...figuring out why that pesky ghost is following her around.Maggie is a likeable, sympathetic heroine wh...

The story of a girl who, with her three brothers, was home schooled until high school. Completely likeable characters. Cop father. Small town... Novia Scotia, where Hicks was herself and her three brothers homeschooled. Ghost story, too. The story is basically about Maggie's adjustment to high school and dealing with a.. . parental issue I won't spoil here. Very engaging and seductive in that you like Mags and her three bros and her two punk friends... who sort of oppose the jock volleyball team...

This is a story that I enjoyed for the plot, but not very much on the art aspect. It looks more like a manga, which might have been a better format. But, nonetheless, it was very interesting. Now, the title is a bit misleading, she is not a friend with just boys, they are her brothers, but it also forgets to mention that she is sort of haunted by a ghost. Yet, WHY DID YOU LEAVE THE STORY IN A SORT OF CLIFFHANGER? I NEED TO HAVE ACTUAL ANSWERS WOMAN!

“What about you? What’s your brand of crazy?” Initial Final Page Thoughts.Um… huh?! Is this a series? But mostly fantastic.High Points. Maggie. Lucy. Alistair. The Brother’s Brill. New school. New friends. Alien. Sigourney Weaver in a bikini. Maritime Ghosts. Maps. “Awesome Rebel Social Group”. Change. “Drinking the Kool-Aid.” Awesome dad. Graveyards. Secret pasts. Volleyball boys. Friends you don’t grow out of. Low Points.I’m not sure whether Ms Hicks plans to write a sequel or turn this st

It sucks to be Maggie! She wants things to be the way they always were, staying at home with her three brothers, being home-schooled by her mother. But, mom has gone AWOL, and Maggie's headin' out that door to school for the first time. There she will encounter friends and enemies as she learns the ins and outs of being a typical high school freshman. Oh, yeah...and she keeps getting visits from the ghostly widow of a dead sea captain...(?)I loved Maggie's relationship with her brothers. Affecti...

It's taken me so long to finally write a review on this one, mostly because it will be one of those reviews that I'll feel as though I'll never be able to capture how great this book really is. That's always how it is with the good ones.The story could probably come off as another coming of age book, with our protagonist Maggie entering high school after years of being home schooled. She has three older brothers who have already established themselves in school, making Maggie feel a bit out of h...

I borrowed Friends With Boys from Debbie while I was loaning her Relish – My Life in the Kitchen , one of my favourite graphic novels. Friends With Boys is the first graphic novel I’ve actually read since Relish nearly a year ago. I was particularly looking forward to it because it’s part contemporary – about a teenager called Maggie who used to be homeschooled until her mother left home suddenly, and now she has to find a way to navigate the treacherous world of high school – and part parano...

Maggie is a fourteen-year-old girl who was homeschooled, like her three brothers, until her mother abandoned the family and took off. Now Maggie (whose father is the police chief) has to go to high school for the first time. Besides dealing with the usual trials of being the new kid at school, she's also haunted.This graphic novel is mostly a sweet family + high school drama (Maggie needs to find herself, she's got issues with her mother having left, her brothers have friends and nemeses at high...