Breaking Up by Aimee Friedman; Christine Norrie, ill. New York: Graphix/Scholastic, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-439-74867-4

 

Chloe Sacks is now a junior in high school, and life, love, and friendships are more complicated than ever.

 

Medium: pen and ink

 

Rating: 3Q/4P

 

Literary device utilized (through illustration): allusion

 

Example: In one panel, Chloe is depicted as the literary character Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter, but with the letter “K” on her dress (scorned by her peers because she’d kissed a boy she had a crush on).

 

submitted July 2009 by Josh Mitchell  

 

 

 

Breakin up by Aimee Friedman and Christine Norrie, ill. New York: Graphix, 2007.

            ISBN: 9780439748674

            Annotation: this is the story of four high school girls that became friends since they were little and now in junior year are having a lot of troubles and their friendship ends because of boys, popularity, and sex troubles. It’s a coming of age book for young women.

            Media: pen and ink

            Rating: 5Q/5P

Subject: English, Friendship. Grade 9-12

Armando Rivera 7-24-09

 

Friedman, A. (2007). Breaking up, Norrie, C., (ill). New York: Graphix, 2007.

 

ISBN: 978-0439748674

This novel chronicles four friends as they go through their junior year at a private Manhattan high school. They realize how much has changed since they first became friends.

Media: Pen and Ink

 

Rating 4Q/5P

 

Subjects: Friendship, Coming-of-Age, Dating, Social Climbing, Secrets

 

Ages: Grades 8-11

km 6/16/09

 

 

Friedman, A. (2007) Breaking Up. (C. Norrie, ill.) New York: Graphix, 2007.

ISBN: 0439748674

 

Chloe starts her junior year with her three best friends and expects the best, but will their friendship be able to withstand the pressures of school?

 

Media Used:       Pen and Ink

Rating:      4Q/4P

Format:     Graphic Novel

 

Theme: Breaking Up is full of teenage peer pressure to fit in rather than to be your true self.  Chloe and her friends each face different societal pressures: Mackenzie is obsessed with becoming the most popular girl in school, Erika is faced with either having sex with her boyfriend or him breaking up with her, Isabel is stuck between her overly strict family and high school life, and Chloe wants to be rid of the pressures of popularity and follow her own ambitions.  Everything becomes even more complicated when Chloe starts to like the nerdy Adam who inhabits the lowest rank on the popularity ladder, and Chloe becomes scared that her friends will not accept her anymore if they find out about their relationship.  As their junior year progresses, Chloe’s and Adam’s secret relationship is exposed and her friends are mad that she didn’t tell them about it (and Mackenzie is mad that her own popularity may be tarnished by association).  Eventually, the girls become friends again, but only after Mackenzie becomes the laughing stock of the whole school.  Although it is clear that their friendship will never be what it once was, each girl discovers something about herself, and they have learned to respect each other.

Submitted by Amanda Melilli 4/18/08

 

 

Citation: Breaking Up by Aimee Friedman and Christine Norri, ill. New York: Scholastic, 2007.

 

 

ISBN: 0439748674

 

 

Annotation: Chloe dates unpopular Adam, but won’t let her friends know for fear it will affect her popularity. She decides it’s better to follow her bliss regardless of what others believe.  

 

 

Media: Black and White Ink. Comic-book style.

 

 

Rating: 4Q/5P

 

S.F 06/21/09