From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle-grade graphic audiobook narrated by the authors and a full cast. The program features original Tegan and Sara music and sound design throughout the program, and a bonus conversation with Tillie Walden, the illustrator of the graphic novel, discussing the process of adapting the graphic novel into an audiobook. Tegan and Sara: Junior High explores growing up, coming out, and finding yourself through music and sisterhood, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Sisters.
Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side-by-side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and take separate paths to understanding their queerness. For the first time ever, they ask who one sister is without the other.
Set in the present day, this effervescent blend of fiction and autobiography offers a glimpse at the two sisters before they became icons, exploring their shifting relationship, their own experiences coming out, and the first steps of their musical journey.
A prequel of sorts to the authors' bestselling adult memoir High School, now an eight-episode Freevee television series!
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250327406
- File size: 88354 KB
- Duration: 03:04:04
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- English
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Reviews
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April 3, 2023
Twin musicians Tegan and Sara Quin (High School, for adults) collaborate with Walden (Clementine) to deliver a fictionalized contemporary accounting of their 1990s junior high school years in this jam-packed graphic novel. Following a move to Calgary, 12-year-old Tegan and Sara begin their first year of junior high. Things get off to a rocky start, however, when the siblings realize that, for the first time, they’ll be in separate classes. Headstrong Sara and soft-spoken Tegan are initially agitated at their classmates’ inability to tell them apart and experience anxiety over their separation, but as the year unfurls, they encounter differing social, physical, and emotional firsts. Even as they embark on opposite personal paths, the pair’s discovery of their mother’s boyfriend’s old guitar soon brings them closer together than ever before. Humorous asides to the reader from Tegan and Sara—rendered in blue and red, respectively—are interspersed throughout; Walden winningly depicts densely detailed drawings via frameless, amorphous panels with a purple tone that mixes the twins’ individual hues. While some slang and musical references feel forced, the emotions and character interactions are timelessly resonant. Ages 10–14. -
Starred review from October 1, 2023
Gr 5-8-The book was already a refreshing, coming-of-age reveal: real-life twin music sensations and LGBTQIA+ icons Tegan and Sara updated their own adolescence for contemporary audiences-adding cell phones, social media-presented in cleverly color-coded panels by Eisner-winning illustrator Tillie Walden (Tegan is blue, Sara is reddish, combined purple-ish their reality). Now transformed into a spectacular audiobook, the aural enhancements are many, most memorably the ability to hear the provenance of the twins' musical career-finding their stepdad's guitar, awkwardly strumming their first chords, tenaciously learning to play via online tutorials, debuting their first song to friends and family. Beyond listening to the famous twins' own voices-worrying, planning, fighting, singing-a stellar supportive cast ensures an immersive experience; versatile standouts include Santana as excitable Dad, Brackett as reliable stepfather Bruce, N�meth-Parker as mean girl Avery. VERDICT Libraries should prepare: experiencing print and audio simultaneously will surely elicit optimal appreciation.
Copyright 2023 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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