TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elliott,Rachel
TI  - The real Riley Mayes
SN  - 9780062995759
AV  - PZ7.7.E455 Rea 2022
U1  - F ELL741.5/973 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley
KW  - Middle school students
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - Middle schools
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Schools
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - Coming-of-age comics
KW  - lcgft
KW  - School comics
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - LGBTQ+ fiction
KW  - Comics (Graphic works)
N1  - School Library Journal, May 2022; Pub Weekly, April 2022; Booklist, May 2022; Kirkus Review, March 2022; 3.4; 3-6
N2  - Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking Joy Powers! Things start to look up when a classmate, Cate, offers to help Riley with the letter, and a new kid, Aaron, actually seems to get her weird sense of humor. But when mean girl Whitney spreads a rumor about her, things begin to click into place for Riley. Her curiosity about Aaron's two dads and her celebrity crush on Joy Powers suddenly make more sense
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