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All’s Faire in Middle School

By Victoria Jamieson

Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! The Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl is back with a heartwarming graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire.

Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she’s eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she’ll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind—she’ll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it’s not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school. Impy falls in with a group of girls who seem really nice (until they don’t) and starts to be embarrassed of her thrift shop apparel, her family’s unusual lifestyle, and their small, messy apartment. Impy has always thought of herself as a heroic knight, but when she does something really mean in order to fit in, she begins to wonder whether she might be more of a dragon after all. 

As she did in Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson perfectly—and authentically—captures the bittersweetness of middle school life with humor, warmth, and understanding.

State Awards

Recommended reading lists from your state's teacher or librarian associations!
  • Florida
    • Sunshine State Young Readers Award, 2019-2020
  • Delaware
    • Blue Hen Book Award, 2020
  • New Jersey
    • Garden State Book Award 2020
    • Garden State Teen Book Award 2020
  • South Carolina
    • South Carolina Picture Book Award 2019-2020
  • Oregon
    • Oregon Reader's Choice Award (ORCA), 2020
  • New Mexico
    • Land of Enchantment Book Award Lizard List, 2019-2020
  • Texas
    • Great Texas Mosquito List, 2019-2020
    • Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List, 2018
  • Illinois
    • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2020
  • Louisiana
    • Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award, 2019-2020
  • Indiana
    • Young Hoosier Book Award, 2019-2020
  • Michigan
    • Great Lakes, Great Books Award, 2018-2019
  • South Dakota
    • South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards, 2018-2019
  • Wisconsin
    • Just One More Page!, 2018
  • Tennessee
    • Volunteer State Book Award, 2019-2020
  • Vermont
    • Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award, 2018-2019
  • Maryland
    • Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, 2018-2019
  • Alaska
    • Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
  • Washington D.C.
    • Capitol Choices Reading List, 2018

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