Roaming

By Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki,

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Book description

Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city. Roaming marks a triumphant return to the graphic novel and a deft foray into new adult fiction for Caldecott Medal authors Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. Over the course of a much-anticipated trip to New York, an unexpected fling…

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1 author picked Roaming as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a hefty graphic novel, but it never feels like too much. It’s a snapshot of a time and place, three college girls visiting New York City for five days, and there’s not an overload of plot, but it still flows along sweetly.

It’s printed in tri-tone, and there are pages that simply evoke the sights and sounds (and even smells) of New York. The characters are presented simply, but their complexities are brought to life through their interactions with each other and their surroundings.

I went in with zero knowledge of who these kids were and came out…

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