This One Summer [Paperback]

A New York Times bestseller
A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
An Eisner Award Winner

The Tamaki cousins weave a coming-of-age tale of girlhood, friendship, and nostalgia-for-right-now that has changed the landscape of graphic novels.

Rose is always excited for summer. It means the lake house with her parents, but most importantly, it means she gets to spend the summer with her best friend Windy. This year, though - it's different. Roses parents wont stop fighting and when she and Windy look for distractions, they find a whole new world. Its full of local teensjust a few years older than they are  and one of them is caught up in something very bad and very secret. Rose and Windy have to navigate the confusion, heartbreak, and hope that comes with being right on the edge of growing up.

Mariko Tamakiis a writer of comics and young adult novels. Her books include the graphic novelsSkimandThis One Summerwith Jillian Tamaki, andEmiko Superstarwith Steve Rolston.

Jillian Tamakiis an illustrator and comics artist. She is the co-creator ofSkimandThis One Summer, and the author ofSuperMutant Magic AcademyandBoundless(2017). She has taught comics and illustration in New York City at SVA and The New School. She lives in Toronto.

This book is poignant and melancholy, and it will be swiftly recognizable to those who only recently hovered at the cusp of adolescence. BCCB,starred review

This captivating graphic novel presents a fully realized picture of a particular time in a young girl's life, an in-between summer filled with yearning and a sense of ephemerality. School Library Journal,starred review

A summer of family drama, secrets and change in a small beach town . . . Keenly observed and gorgeously illustrated - a triumph. Kirkus Reviews,starred review