Cassandra Calin’s THE NEW GIRL: A GRAPHIC NOVEL captures the uncomfortable feelings of twelve-year-old Lia. Not only is she moving from Romania to Canada, her period arrives before she can leave and her mother openly and completely draws attention to the situation. This is only the first of many situations Lia faces—difficulties with language, making friends, changing bodies all explored in ways that all girls is will identify with, for don’t alll situations seem somehow new in adolescence? Graphics further the feelings so strongly represented in words.You can find more information about this book in the purchase link below.