

The girls make up afterwards and Christine bands together with their other classmates to perform at the talent show in tribute to Moon while the school hosts the night as a Fundraiser for Moon and her mother. Christine avoids talking to Moon as she was the one that caused the fight and Moon gets surgery to remove her tumor. After attacking a classmate, Moon passes out and it’s discovered she has a tumor in her brain that requires surgery. The girls start laughing at the drawings in the journal but when Moon encounters situations that upset her, she doesn’t know how to act and gets violent.

The girls get closer but when Christine’s schedule gets busier, Moon finds a new friend in Madison, making Christine jealous to the point she leaves Moon’s journal open on the table for everyone to see.

Once she gets to know her, she finds out that she is actually a good person and they become great friends who decide on performing in the talent show together. She then meets a girl, Moon, who is rumored to beat up other kids. Summary: Christine is a young girl who plays the violin and is suggested by her parents to join the talent show. Published September 10th, 2019 by First Second Today, I am happy to share the classroom uses and discussion questions found by my UCF Elementary Education students created for these graphic novels they read. We started with picture books for practice then students created them in their book clubs each week. One of the assignments during my Spring Children’s Literature course at UCF was creating a mini-teaching guide for the books we read for book clubs.
