The War at Ellsmere

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Authors aiming to interest nascent adults need drum up narrative conflicts with which these readers will be acquainted—and let's be honest, the well of experienced conflicts will run a lot deeper for grown-ups than it will for nearly any fourteen-year-old. But living at Ellsmere is far from ideal: She is labeled a "special project," Ellsmere's queen bee is out to destroy her, and it's rumoured that a mythical beast roams the forest next to the school.

All three parts of the trilogy as well as notes from Peter and me are contained in this lovely (and huge! It’s a great addition to any intermediate and high school graphic novel collection (but also suitable for keen Year 5/6 readers). But living at Ellsmere is far from ideal: She is labeled a “special project,” Ellsmere's queen bee is out to destroy her, and it’s rumoured that a mythical beast roams the forest next to the school.So those hoping to sell books to young audiences have a slender few options to choose from and the end result is a lot of books that are enjoyable enough but are generally just variations on a theme. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. While working on their assignment near the forest they see a strange creature moving through the trees.

Luckily, she makes friends with her roommate Cassie, who is sweet-natured and a little kooky; she often mentions things like alien abductions, and she's the one who tells Jun all the crazy stories about the school's mysterious history and the creature said to roam the nearby woods punishing evil. This graphic novel was illustrated beautifully and touched on some of the important topics such as family bond, friendship and bullying.Between finishing The War at Ellsmere and beginning this review, I also read Raina Telgameier's Smile and a couple volumes of Kaoru Mori's A Bride's Story. No hate to the author, I'm not saying I could do better, but as the reader AND the one with the review, I think I'm entitled to have a little judgment at least. But living at Ellsmere is far from ideal: She is labeled a “special project,” Ellsmere’s queen bee is out to destroy her, and it’s rumored that a mythical beast roams the forest next to the school. The story focuses on a girl who gets accepted at a prestigious private school for girls as a "scholarship" girl and is predictably bullied and predictably resolves things, all too easy.