📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Francesca Zappia
Eliza Mirk is the weird, shy,
unpopular girl at school Online though she is LadyConstellation the creator of
the popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Her online identity is a secret, known
only to her parents, twin brothers, and two best friends) Max and Emmy (who
also happen to live online. When asked to show new student Wallace around the school, Eliza has no interest, but things get complicated when she learns he is
a fan, and he sees her artwork thinking she too is a fan. As the pair grow
close Eliza learns that life offline may not be so bad.
A beautifully written story about a
teen who just so happens to be living her life with a mental illness. While
Eliza’s depression and anxiety may not seem clear at first to those with little
knowledge of the subjects, there is a point in the book where it becomes more visible.
Teens (with or without their own mental illness) will likely relate to Eliza’s
frustration with her parents' lack of understanding of her comic and desire for
her to spend more time in the real world.
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