  | Very : bad at math (Very, Very Graphic Novel) Author: Larson, Hope | |
| Price: $21.68 | ||
Summary:
Verity "Very" Nelson can do it all. She's student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist. You could say she's pretty much the best at everything. Well, almost everything. Everything except math. Soon she finds herself enrolled in a remedial math class, where, despite her best efforts, failure persists. All seems lost until a teacher helps her discover the truth: Verity has dyscalculia, a learning disability that causes her to mix up numbers. In graphic novel format.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 3.10 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 553758 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (11/01/24)
School Library Journal (+) (00/01/25)
Booklist (01/01/25)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/01/25)
The Hornbook (00/03/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 01/01/2025 When the principal tells eighth-grade class president Verity that if she doesn’t bring up her math grade, she’ll be kicked off student council, Verity is furious. She, along with her vice president, are on track to raise enough money for the entire class to go to Danger Hollow Fun Park. If she’s so good at what she’s doing for the school, why does her math grade matter? But when Verity transposes numbers on an order form and receives hundreds of dog-sized shirts instead of the class T-shirts she thought she was ordering, there’s no more pretending her poor math skills will just go away. When her mistake is revealed to her classmates by an overeager school podcaster, Verity’s chances for redemption become exponentially worse. Graphic novelist Larson has aimed her latest story at middle-grade readers who will identify with a character afraid of being defined by what she’s bad at rather than for her strengths, and the revelation of the cause of Verity’s problem with math will make a lot of readers feel seen. A solid addition. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
