It might be difficult to tell from the page count, but this is actually a graphic novel. I took this with me to the gym today, I've been going to the gym regularly for the first time in my life to try to correct some injuries instead of succumbing to surgery and I wanted to try to read while exercising. So I thought I'd bring something easy that didn't require a lot of concentration since they play music in the gym and I normally can't read if I hear music with words, but there was just enough a...

Love it so much!!!!!!!!Want to start reading graphic novels??! Start with this one ASAP!!One of the best, no, it's actually the best middle grade graphic novel I have read!The artwork is the best, the characters are amazing, the plot goes pretty good and the character dynamics is really great.As the title says, the story is about a class organizing a drama for the drama club at school. It shows how a dedicated team works for the success of a good drama show!It also shows the different personalit...

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/Drama was meant to be a Banned Books Week selection, but the wait list at the library was a little longer than anticipated (and hopefully full of children who were taking a stand against censorship and not just old ladies like me). Why it’s banned or challenged? Homosexuality – in the form of first crushes. In all actuality it's about the cast, but mainly crew, of the school play and all the goings on while they try to make it to openi...

I'm not someone who Googles old acquaintances much; I tend to leave the past in the past, and I'm also a bit of a digital recluse. (Who am I kidding: a bit of a recluse in general!) By this I mean that I never got much into Facebook and have limited myself to only dabbling in other platforms. GR is pretty much the only mechanism I regularly use to virtually interact with others, and I like it because it's focused precisely on the literary aspects of life rather than, you know, All Of Life.Noneth...

i'm still trash for this book

Drama Love! I love theatre geeks and people of the theatre. I was in the pit of the musicals and I got to be around the actors and I loved it. Theatre culture is amazing and I adore the people. It is a great experience. I feel like this little story captures those high school theatre days so well. Raina hits the notes perfectly. There is drama everywhere. There is drama on stage and to top it all off there is the school dance in there to make sure there was enough drama. There is also the main c...

I went into this graphic novel a bit wary, since I had read Telgemeier's Smile and wasn't the biggest fan... But with this newest addition I was ecstatic to find that Drama was nothing like I'd anticipated. Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-sc...

pros:- normalized queer rep that is very sweet ♥ - cute art & pretty color palettes- relatable for anyone who's lived through the horrors of middle school, but esp. if they were/are in drama!cons:- honestly... kind of boring :(- the MC is so boy-crazy it got a little old. I wanted to see more of her interacting with friends she wasn't crushing on!All in all, though, this was really cute and I enjoy the thought of giving two middle fingers up to everyone who thinks this book should be banned for

Learning English with a middle-grade graphic novel is super! And this story is very interesting.

The drama is mostly off stage in this teen-filled soap opera surrounding a high school musical. Kids here are trying to discover themselves, and their sexual orientation . . . all while putting on a Broadway-quality production. And, I love that Telgemeier focuses mostly on the stage crew rather than the actors. Favorite line - But think of the people who might come if they knew there was a cannon involved.This is utterly charming from beginning to end.

Raina Telgemeier does it again. She has a knack for telling a serious yet humorous story with colorful, fun artwork. I loved her main character Callie- she was a very real 7th grade girl. I also loved that this book was not about the lead actress in a musical- it was about the stage crew (though some actors did play a part). Raina also does a wonderful job at introducing middle school boys who are questioning their sexuality in an unbiased, nonjudgmental way. It is completely appropriate for mid...

Review originally posted on RatherBeReadingBlog.com:I am absolutely giddy in love with Raina Telgemeier’s work. Drama is the first graphic novel I’ve ever read and while it only took me about an hour to get through it, I couldn’t stop going back and smiling over the details in these colorful scenes and how perfectly Raina has been able to capture the middle school experience. And for the theater lovers, finally: a book that celebrates those dear people who work on the stage crew, the kookiness t...

Read this with my 8 year old. We both thought it was cute!

The Summer of the Graphic Novel continues at our house. . . I love the bold and playful illustrations in this one (some might call the artwork. . . dramatic?) and Callie is my personal favorite so far of all of Telgemeier's characters.Our son graduated from a high school that has a drama program that you just would NOT believe. Every show we have attended has been at "off Broadway" standards, and several of his peers have gone on to pursue Broadway and/or a serious study of music at Berklee, so

Although both Raina Telgemeier's autobiographic Smile and Sisters have been not only personal favourites but have also done much to enamour me a bit more of Middle Grade graphic novels in general (and this especially for themes like family and friendship), I cannot say that I have found her Drama in any manner equally engaging and enjoyable. And I guess that my main issue with Drama has for the most part been that unlike Smile and Sisters (which I have indeed found very personally relatable and

THIS WAS SO CUTE!!!! 🥰💖🏳️‍🌈

This book was something that you can really connect to! Callie is a normal teen that deals with typical boy drama along with handling a romantic play. However, if you want some advice for boy drama, I wouldn't go to her if I were you. :)

Guest Post by Addie, my 9-year-old daughterDRAMA is about girl named Callie who is in a acting class at school. She likes a boy who finds out he is gay in acting class. Callie loves to read acting books at the library. In this book Callie is a set designer and at the end of the she becomes the stage manager.I would recommend this book to my friends because I think they would like it. Callie learns about gay people and how she can still be friends with them.My reaction: Well, I guess I probably s...

Callie wants to be an actress, but unfortunately she cannot act or sing. Thus, she becomes the set designer for the school play. Lots of drama around onstage and offstage. Supporting friends and an annoying little brother.Another excellent graphic novel by our family's favourite author.

This has consistently been one of the most popular graphic novels for middle graders in every school library I've worked in. It's fun, it's an interesting story, and the art is great. Essentially, it's the story of a year 7 kid who's working on the set design for the school play. Along the way, she makes new friends, overcomes obstacles in her vision for the play, and struggle buses her way through friendships and crushes. I loved the fact that it's a middle grade graphic novel with LGBTQIA repr...