There's nothing Suyapa would love more than to go to camp with her friends this summer. Unfortunately, she's heading to Honduras to visit her extended family. Before departing for the summer, the comic club at school has given everyone the assignment to create a comic over the summer. But Suyapa is not inspired at all. If she was at sleepaway camp with her friends, maybe she's have some ideas, but now that she's in Honduras, what is she supposed to illustrate? Her own boring life, in the middle of nowhere with no Internet and no cellphone service?
Being the middle daughter of three daughters means that Suyapa is annoyed both by an older sister and by a younger sister. Her cousins are even more of a handful. When Suyapa thinks life cannot get any worse, she realizes that her mother has been planning a quinceañera for her, with frilly clothes and lots of pink. Both of these things are definitively not Suyapa, so now she feels ambushed.
Suyapa's grandmother helps her gain a new perspective on life, and her sudden death reinforces the idea that she should in fact go through her quinceañera, but on her own terms. And, perhaps this summer vacation spent with her family does in fact make an excellent comic for the comic club!
Fun an engaging, Suyapa's tales of woes having to perform activities she has no interest in are entirely relatable. The images are crisp, well defined, and very colorful. Fans of graphic novels should give this one a read, they will thoroughly enjoy it!
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