Smile

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Young Reader's Choice Award Three Division Winners 2011-2021.” Pacific Northwest Library Association, 28 Mar. 2022, pnla.org/young-readers-choice-award/past-yrca-winners/yrca-three-division-winners-2011-2020/. Children's and Young Adult Literature: Nevada Young Reader Award.” UNLV University Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2014, guides.library.unlv.edu/c.php?g=403811&p=2864262. The Tooth Hurts: Raina smashes her two front teeth out with blood spurting everywhere in the first chapter.

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a b c d e f g h Wildsmith, Snow. “Interview: Raina Telgemeier.” Good Comics for Kids, School Library Journal, June 2010, goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2010/06/13/interview-raina-telgemeier/. a b c d Boerman-Cornell, William. "The Intersection of Words and Pictures: Second through Fourth Graders Read Graphic Novels." The Reading Teacher, vol. 70, no. 3, 2016, pp. 327-335, doi: 10.1002/trtr.1525. Great Graphic Novels for Teens | Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)". www.ala.org. July 30, 2007 . Retrieved April 8, 2016.Eye Take: Raina's reaction to her new friends treating her post-braces teeth (which she thought were ugly) with a grain of salt. a b c d e f g h Raina Telgemeier (September 12, 2016). "Get That Life: How I Became a Best-Selling Graphic Novelist" (Interview). Interviewed by Heather Wood Rudulph. Cosmopolitan . Retrieved January 24, 2018.

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Autobiography: The first in Raina's Smile series, about the time she lost her two front teeth and the years-long aftermath. Raina herself, albeit to a far lesser degree. She can be quite standoffish and snappy towards people who want to help her, including her mother. That being said, she is still a generally good-natured person who loves her family and most of her acting out is due to her insecurities and not due to her being a bad person. No toxic friendship is ever worth holding onto. If they've never done or said anything nice to you, it's best to accept they're not good for you and cut your losses. Even if being by yourself seems intimidating, it will benefit you in the long run and allow someone better to come in your life. An Aesop: This book has several noteworthy morals; given that the story covers Raina's early life, it's also important that the book dropped this message so consistently to go alongside the story of her orthodontics: Don't focus too much on your appearance. The people who are closest to you either won't notice or won't care.Smile was published as a graphic novel with eight chapters by the Graphix imprint of Scholastic Inc. in 2010. [2] Stephanie Yue did the color for the novel version of Smile. [1] Summary [ edit ] Character list [ edit ] Amara - A six-year-old (in the end 10-year-old). She teased Raina for her braces, is not very social, and argues with Will and Raina. Rage Breaking Point: In the middle of her dental work ordeal, Raina puts up with a lot of teasing from her friends. Until, that is, some of them sneak up and jerk her skirt down in front of dozens of other students. Their defense that she was wearing tights underneath it (and thus obviously nothing was shown) cuts no ice with a furious Raina, who lambastes them for both that and the constant digs at her braces, and she stops hanging around with them immediately. What's more, the previous scene with Raina's skirt getting pulled down in front of everyone is Played for Drama. While everyone else laughs at her humiliation, Raina's crying in the bathroom shows that it's not so fun on the receiving end. To a lesser extent, her friends don't get punished for this because life isn't fair and the administration doesn't bother to fix this.