Drame

Starred review from June 4, 2012
Seventh-grader Callie has been in love with the stage ever since she saw Les Miz when she was younger. Since her singing skills leave much to be desired, she’s forged a place for herself at the drama club as the set decorator. While her love for the stage is clear, which boy she loves is a different matter. Is it Greg, the handsome eighth-grade jock who trifled with her while on a break from his diva girlfriend, Bonnie? Or Justin, the cute boy who is playing the comic relief in the middle school production of Moon over Mississippi?—who happens to be gay. Or what about his twin brother, Jesse, who isn’t gay and is helping Callie with set decorating? The author follows up her award-winning graphic novel Smile with another dead-on look at the confusing world of middle school, sweetly capturing all the drama swirling around the school production: from jealousies and misunderstandings to the last-minute surprise stage substitution that may not make a star, but helps settle who likes who. Telgemeier’s manga-infused art has some moments of heartache, but the generally cheerful and affirming story should be eagerly devoured by her many fans. Ages 10-14.

lilwal1617 - Drama By Raina Telgemeier Do you know what it’s like to be in Drama and have a gay friend? Well, in this book a girl named Callie who is the protagonist joins drama but doesn’t be in the play she is stage management. She also has these friends that help her and she meet these twins. One of them loves theatre and the other isn’t as into it and is gay but his parents don’t know how they're gonna take it. The antagonist is that she wanted to be in the play except… SHE CAN’T SING! Anyways, The time is 2012 and it was mostly on stage or at school and home. 1 major conflict is she was nervous about the play because they only had a certain amount of money they were aloud to use like a budget and they couldn’t buy a lot of confetti for the 2 prop cannons and the bottles say full blast each time and they didn’t get the full blast they wanted. Another major conflict is she wants to help her friends and she tries to get her gay friend a boyfriend. A interesting fact I got is she has many friends except she isn’t popular quite yet. Another fact is she tries to fix the prop canons and wants them to be perfect. My 3rd fact is She has her friends help in getting the play perfect her gay friend helps but doesn’t want to be in it and hi brother does. My 4th fact is Callie’s brother snoops her phone over her head and reads who she was texting and it was a boy and he said “ Who’s your BF” but she doesn’t have one. My last fact is She tries to sing but she can’t, When she was younger she went to see a play she’s wanted to be in a play but she can’t sing so she is the backstage manager which is the next closest thing to perform. In conclusion anybody should read this it is a great book but you should atleast be 11 and up because their are some mature scenes in this book I hope everyone could read this book someday.