Roller Girl

Author/Illustrator: Victoria Jamieson 

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Grade Level: K-4

Award: Newbery Award 

This book is about a little girl and her best friend. Her mother takes her to the roller derby one time and thats when she decides that she wants to be a roller derby girl someday. She signs up for summer camp thinking that her friend will also sign up since they are best friends and do everything together. Instead her friend Nicole signs up for dance camp and she starts to make different friends. Astrid makes new friends and eventually learns how to skate and ends up growing so much this summer she thought was going to be horrible. 

This book is a good book to teach a lesson about change. It can help students identify with change in their lives and being okay with growth. It also teaches us that we all have different interests and that doesn't mean we can't be friends with those who don't share the same interests as us.

This is a graphic novel. It looks like a comic book style. It is very colorful and very fun. The text is in speech bubbles and the font is very comic book like.