Jensen is lovable and fascinating, and you will find yourself rooting for him and feeling alongside him as the graphic novel progresses. As in Awkward, Chmakova is a master at creating compelling characters with distinct personalities. Throughout the book, Jensen starts to rockily make friends with these three (and some other students), but conflicts with the other students as well as schoolwide drama due to the school's dress code (which prohibits short skirts) put Jensen's existing methods for surviving school to the test. Jensen's only source of relief becomes doing chores for the school's newspaper crew, Jenny, Akilah, and Felipe, whom he has admired for a long time. Art club starts to become unpleasant as well, as some of his fellow club members start to exclude and make fun of him at every turn. These obstacles include math class, taught by a teacher who is mostly unsympathetic to Jensen's struggles in the subject, and constant bullying, usually due to Jensen's weight or obsession with preparing for the apocalypse (be it due to zombies or, as he was worried about in Awkward, sunspots). Jensen sees each school day as a series of obstacles that he has to overcome before getting to attend art club (the same art club that played a major role in the previous book). Will those daring daydreams of his finally work in his favor, or will he have to find real solutions to his real life problems?"- Provided by publisher.The main character of Brave (a graphic novel, like Awkward) is Jensen Graham, who was a minor character (mainly serving comic relief) in Awkward.
Jensen's always played the middle school game one level at a time, but suddenly, someone's cranked up the difficulty setting. And the pressure's on even more once the school newspaper's dynamic duo, Jenny and Akilah, draw Jensen into the whirlwind of school news, social experiment projects, and behind-the-scenes club drama. Even finding a partner for the class project is a big problem when you always get picked last. But his middle school reality is VERY different - math is hard, getting along with friends is hard. "In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis.
Graphic novels - United States - Young adult fiction.
Middle schools - Comic books, strips, etc. New York, NY : JY, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC, Ģ38 pages : chiefly color illustrations 22 cm. Sherman Library Juvenile Graphic Novels 1st FloorĬhmakova, Svetlana, 1979- author, artist.īrave / Svetlana Chmakova coloring assistant: Melissa McCommon lettering: JuYoun Lee.
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