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"Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain their friendships with each other."...

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Main Author: Xunise, Bianca (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language: English
Published: New York : Viking Children's Books, 2024.
Subjects:
African American teenagers > Young adult fiction.
Teenage girls > Young adult fiction.
Sexual minority youth > Young adult fiction.
Punk rock music > Young adult fiction.
Women musicians > Young adult fiction.
Expression (Philosophy) > Young adult fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Young adult fiction.
Friendship > Young adult fiction.
Musicians > Young adult fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Young adult fiction.
Queer comics > Young adult.
Coming-of-age comics > Young adult.
Graphic novels > Young adult.
Comics (Graphic works) > Young adult.
Summary: "Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain their friendships with each other."--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: 248 pages ; 25 cm
Audience: Ages 14 and up
Grades 10-12
ISBN: 9780593464526
0593464524
9780593464502
0593464508
Author Notes: Bianca Xunise is a cartoonist based out of Chicago, Illinois. Their work primarily focuses on the plight, joy, and daily struggles of misfits within the black community. In 2017 Xunise earned an Ignatz for Promising New Talent for their comic Say Her Name, an autobiographical story of police brutality and social justice. In 2020 Xunise earned their second Ignatz for their contribution to Be Gay, Do Comics published by IDW. Xunise has collaborated with Vogue , The Washington Post , The Nib , and Believer Magazine . They are also a contributor to the book How We Fight Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance along with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tarana Burk, and Harry Belafonte. Bianca became the first nationally syndicated non-binary cartoonist when they joined the comic strip Six Chix in 2020 as their first black creator.

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