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Turning Twelve

With its exhilarating combination of prose and illustrations, Turning Twelve will make readers clamor for more of Katie’s adventures.

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Review of ‘Turning Twelve’

Fans of Kathryn Ormsbee’s first graphic novel, Growing Pangs, will be delighted by heroine Katie’s return in Turning Twelve, an immersive, probing coming-of-age story that brings to mind the adolescent angst of Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Ormsbee effectively mines her own childhood for material. 

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