 | Avant-Guards : volume one (Avant-Guards) Author: Usdin, Carly | |
| Price: $12.29 | ||
Summary:
When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O'Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she struggles to find her feet, but winds up exactly where she belongs ... on the school's (terrible) basketball team. In graphic novel format.
| Illustrator: | Hayes, Noah |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: UG Reading Level: 2.80 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 511062 |
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 07/01/2019 Transfer student Charlie is content to not get too involved at her new college, but determined, aspiring actor Liv will stop at nothing to get her to join her start-up basketball team, the Avant-Guards, even if it means she has to recruit the rest of the team members to subtly—or not so subtly—persuade her. Despite her reservations, Charlie finally agrees, and the team is surprised to learn at their first game that, hey, they’re not that bad! Amid all the basketball action, Usdin drops in plenty of backstory for the other team members and cultivates warm personalities through their comical interactions. Hayes and Nalty’s dynamic artwork in bright colors matches the cheerful tone and does a fantastic job of depicting the teammates, who are refreshingly diverse in skin tone and body shape. The figure designs nicely play up the personalities of the characters as well, and the basketball scenes are drawn with clear-cut action. This lighthearted ensemble story with a glimmer of romance is ideal for fans of John Allison’s Giant Days comics or Ngozi Ukazu’s Check, Please! (2018). - Copyright 2019 Booklist.
