What's the book?

October 14, 2009 8:16 AM

I saw a graphic novel in a store today - the sequel to an earlier work, about a female high school student's adolescence, and written by a woman. Any ideas on what it could have been?

The book had been published recently. The artwork had a red-haired girl in a hoody on the front, and the back cover referred to the heroine getting into drugs and (possibly) dropping out of high school. Oh, and it was American/Canadian, not Japanese. Because I'm an idiot, I didn't write down what it was, and I didn't have the £9 necessary to take it home from the second-hand bookstore.

posted by mippy to writing & language (3 comments total)

One of Ariel Schrag's books?
posted by liketitanic at 8:29 AM on October 14, 2009

A Mess of Everything by Miss Lasko-Gross. It's the sequel (but it can stand alone) to her Escape From "Special."
posted by darksong at 8:30 AM on October 14, 2009

That's the one! Ta.
posted by mippy at 9:49 AM on October 14, 2009