The War at Ellsmere

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Her art resembles roughly what you'd find in a volume of Scott Pilgrim—only with a touch more detail and (probably) a touch more heart.

With revamped art and now in full colour, One Year at Ellsmere is an endearing - and surprising - friendship story from beloved house author Faith Erin Hicks! All that said about the characters, the one critique I’d make is that Emily, the head mean girl, comes off as a bit too one dimensional. In further Avatar news, there will be a brand new stand-alone graphic novel about Katara published in October. All three parts of the trilogy as well as notes from Peter and me are contained in this lovely (and huge!

So those hoping to sell books to young audiences have a slender few options to choose from and the end result is a lot of books that are enjoyable enough but are generally just variations on a theme.

I’m also in the midst of writing and drawing a brand new original graphic novel which has not yet been announced, but I occasionally post artwork from it on my twitter or Instagram. Hicks does a great job of showing why Emily would be so set on maintaining status quo without going into preachy mode, and without giving her a too-good-to-be-true ending. When studious teenager Juniper wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ellsmere Academy, she expects to find a scholastic utopia.

The story was so basic and stereotypical that there just had to be a magical beast that shows up for like 0. The story focuses on a girl who gets accepted at a prestigious private school for girls as a "scholarship" girl and is predictably bullied and predictably resolves things, all too easy.

She has a smart mouth and a whole lotta attitude, which helps her when she incurs the wrath of Emily, a rich, snobbish but equally snide and witty student.

Juniper is the first scholarship student to attend the prestigious Ellsmere Academy, a boarding school for girls. This graphic novels melds a lot of great elements: there's the "misfit at boarding school" story, the developing friendship between Cassie and Jun, the rivalry between Emily and Jun, and the weird hints of magic on the school grounds. I suppose those girls must exist, but my experience in school was that popular girls were popular because they were so well-liked, not because they were adept bullies, and that mean girls weren't popular outside their small cliques because they weren't likeable. Jun (Juniper to strangers) is a new arrival at hallowed old Ellsmere, a girls' school with a certain longevity built on the instruction of alumnists' daughters—and the occasional charity case.

I probably have more but I literally forgot everything and it's been like ten minutes since I've read the book. The book doesn’t have the most original story and the drama plays out fairly predictably but because the characters are so well realised, you’re with them for the whole ride and the to-ing and fro-ing between Jun and Emily was more than enough to keep me invested.From New York Times bestselling author Faith Erin Hicks comes a feel-good graphic novel about friendship and fitting in. There she was homeschooled with her three brothers, and developed an unnatural passion for galloping around on horseback, though never without a proper helmet (because you only get one skull). The War at Ellsmere is about Juniper, a 13 year old student who wins a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, Ellsmere Academy, something she’s been wanting for a long time.