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This auspicious graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki tells the story of \x93Skim,\x94 aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a goth girl in an all-girls school in Toronto, circa the early '90s. Skim is an articulate, angsty teenager, the classic outsider yearning for some form of acceptance.

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Her graphic novels include Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, with Rosemary Valero O'Connell, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, with Steve Pugh, Skim and This One Summer, with Jillian Tamaki. She has received Doug Wright, Eisner and Ignatz Awards as well as Caldecott and Printz Honors for her works. She has had the pleasure of working for.

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Skim is a Canadian graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Jillian Tamaki. Set in 1993, in a Toronto Catholic girls high school, it is about an outsider girl called Skim. Plot Skim is a "not slim" sixteen-year-old Japanese-Canadian who is a student at an all-girls Catholic school. She is known as a Goth, and practices Wicca.

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144 page graphic novel, Ages 14+ "Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself because he was (maybe) gay, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive.

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Skim Mariko Tamaki Groundwood Books Ltd, Apr 29, 2014 - Young Adult Fiction - 144 pages A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is.

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Educator Details Awards Reviews A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto.

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Skim Review Mia Herrera Skim's success is not without good reason. Presented as though it is the diary of Kimberly Keiko Cameron in her freshman year of high school, Skim traverses the.

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A quietly moving graphic novel explores a teen girl's experience with friends, suicide, cliques and love. Both overweight and of mixed ethnicities, Kimberly Keiko Cameron—also known as "Skim" because "she's not"—is slowly moving through high school with her best friend Lisa. Both sharply witty and incisive, the two girls dabble in various forms of self-expression and.

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This auspicious graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki tells the story of "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a goth girl in an all-girls school in Toronto, circa the early '90s. Skim is an articulate, angsty teenager, the classic outsider yearning for some form of acceptance. She begins a fanciful romance with her English.

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Skim examines the crushes, silences & drama of high school TAMAKI TIMES TWO. Writer Mariko Tamaki describes her graphic novel Skim, created with her illustrator cousin Jillian Tamaki, as a "gothic Lolita lesbian story." Credit: (Paula Wilson) High school — the site of all drama. A fertile ground for the increasingly popular graphic novel.

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Skim. Mariko Tamaki. Groundwood Books, $18.95 (140pp) ISBN 978--88899-753-1. This auspicious graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki tells the story of \x93Skim,\x94 aka Kimberly.

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She co-created the highly acclaimed graphic novels Skim and This One Summer with Mariko Tamaki, and she is the creator of the webcomic SuperMutant Magic Academy, and Boundless, a collection of short comics for adults. She has won many awards for her work, including a Caldecott Honor, a Printz Honor, the Eisner Award, the Doug Wright Award and.

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All these concerns are explored in Mariko Tamaki's graphic novel "Skim," the story of 16-year-old Kimberly Keiko Cameron, known as "Skim" to her classmates.

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Skim Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki (Illustrator) 3.77 16,295 ratings1,790 reviews Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensitive graphic novel of the highest literary and artistic quality, by and about young women.

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Mariko Tamaki's LGBT graphic novel, Skim (2008), is about a teenage girl struggling with various emotions when a classmate's boyfriend kills himself. She also struggles with questions about her own sexuality and the difference between love and friendship.