Cub

Raina Telgemeier fans will lap this up. Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksA laugh-out-loud funny and empowering graphic memoir about growing up and finding your voice. Twelve-year-old Cindy has just dipped a toe into seventh-grade drama with its complicated friendships, bullies, and cute boys when she earns an internship as a cub reporter at a local newspaper in the early 1970s. A (rare) young female reporter takes Cindy under her wing, and Cindy soon learns not only how to write a lede, but also how to respectfully question authority, how to assert herself in a world run by men, and as the Watergate scandal unfolds how brave reporting and writing can topple a corrupt world leader. Searching for her own scoops, Cindy doesn t always get it right, on paper or in real life. But whether she s writing features about ghost hunters, falling off her bicycle and into her first crush, or navigating shifting friendships, Cindy grows wiser and more confident through every awkward and hilarious mistake.