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Spinning
Contributor(s): Walden, Tillie (Author), Walden, Tillie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1626729409     ISBN-13: 9781626729407
Publisher: First Second
OUR PRICE:   $16.14  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels - General
- Young Adult Fiction | Lgbt
- Young Adult Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Winter Sports
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016961586
Lexile Measure: 410
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 8.4" (1.85 lbs) 400 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 191881
Reading Level: 3.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 1.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Tillie Walden's Eisner Award winning graphic memoir Spinning captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.

It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark.

Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again.

She was good. She won. And she hated it.

For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden's life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she'd outgrown her passion--and she finally needed to find her own voice.

This title has Common Core connections.

A New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017
A 2018 YALSA Great Graphic Novel
A 2017 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice

Contributor Bio(s): Walden, Tillie: - Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas. Born in 1996, she is a graduate from the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. Over the course of her time at CCS she published three books with the London based Avery Hill Publishing. Her graphic novels with First Second include her autobiographical work Spinning and the sci-fi epic On a Sunbeam. She is a two-time Eisner nominee and Ignatz Award winner who now lives in Los Angeles. When she is not drawing comics, Tillie can be found walking and listening to audiobooks or asleep with a cat.