![]() ![]() Wistful, touching, and perfectly bittersweet." -Booklist, STARRED REVIEW "If I worked at a bookstore, I'd be hand-selling it to customers who adored Raina Telgemeier's graphic memoir Smile but are now ready for more complex themes.This is a lovely book." -The New York Times " manages to evoke the nuances, the confusions, of a pair of characters on the cusp." -Los Angeles Times "Mariko's strengths as awriter lie in her subtlety and her ability to convey whole worlds of feelingwithin a few lines of dialogue." -National Post "I loved it." -Craig Thompson "Jillian's art is simply gorgeous, and the perfect companion to the beautiful-and sometimes painful-truth behind Mariko's every word." -Stephanie Perkins "This One Summer is so vivid and beautifully told, that I saw, heard, and felt every moment. Keenly observed and gorgeously illustrated - a triumph." -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW "*With a light touch, the Tamakis capture the struggle of growing up in a patchwork of summer moments. ![]() ![]() ![]() NZ Review: "*This book is poignant and melancholy, and it will be swiftly recognizable to those who only recently hovered at the cusp of adolesence." -BCCB, STARRED REVIEW "*This captivating graphic novel presents a fully realized picture of a particular time in a young girl's life, an in-between summer filled with yearning and a sense of ephemerality." -School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW "*A summer of family drama, secrets and change in a small beach town. ![]()
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