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Appearing in hundreds of newspapers across the United States and with an enthusiastic online following, Tauhid Bondia's daily comic "Crabgrass" has become an instant classic. This collection includes the highly entertaining escapades of best friends Kevin and Miles, whose curiosity and sense of mischief will be relatable to today's kids while reminding adults of their own childhood misadventures. Join the pair as they navigate school crushes, sibling rivalries, snowball fights, and a whole series of questionable decisions that make for a hilarious and heartwarming reading experience.
Crabgrass explores the same youthful themes of friendship and adventure as Calvin and Hobbes, and the humor, warmth, and innocence will appeal to readers of bestselling middle grade series like Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Big Nate.
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Release date
September 19, 2023 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781524891671
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 350
- Text Difficulty: 1
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Reviews
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July 1, 2023
Bondia offers another collection of slice-of-life comic strips centered on best friends Kevin and Miles. The comics in this volume tend to have at least two punchlines. When Kevin says, "Turns out I don't have the attention span to hold an effective grudge," another character responds, "One of your most endearing qualities." The extra beat often adds to the rhythm of the joke. Sometimes the punchline requires only one word. In another strip, Kevin and Miles are building a snowman, much too late in the season, out of mud and slush. The artwork sells the joke--it's the most oddly grotesque snowman anyone has ever seen, with a word balloon perched over its head: "BRAAAIINS." The new collection is more ambitious than the first, with longer, more complex storylines, most notably a sequence in which the two boys go to a Mega Wrestling Frenzy match. It takes up nearly a quarter of the book, and parts of it--involving a secret village of mascots--are quite surreal, which will enchant some readers and perplex others. But the sequence features some of the best drawings in the book, including a gloriously lantern-jawed pro wrestler. Kevin presents white, while Miles is Black. These strips not only generate laughs, they usually do it twice in a row. (Graphic humor. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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