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The Blog About Smile

The Blog About Smile

I loved Smile! I would recommend it to anyone at any age! A colorful graphic novel set in San Francisco during the late 1980’s and into the early 1990’s it follows the author throughout her braces treatment. It was so cool to see how the braces treatment was the underlying timeline for the entire story. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like about this book. Away at college, I picked up Smile and it brought me back home for a little while. After reading it, I had it out on my desk at work. A co-worker picked it up and felt the same nostalgia of being home. It turned out that he went to the same high school as the author in the book and began telling old high stories of lunch in the courtyard.

In a classroom setting, I would use it almost any English class. Primary grade will love the easy-read colorful pages. Middle school can relate to the awkwardness and feel hopeful that indeed things to get better. High schoolers in English class can look at how the author used the braces treatment and underlying timeline.

Totally read Smile, you be able to help yourself from smiling :)

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