Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash
Published by Candlewick Press (MA) on October 9th 2018
ISBN: 0763694193
Pages: 192
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I am always surprised when a follow-up work is as good as the first. So I am pleased to report that Maggie Thrash’s follow up to Honor Girl is just as good. Again Trash tackles her past with brutal honesty in images and words. Set a year and a half after Honor Girl, Maggie is depressed and failing most of her classes. She wants her parents to notice her troubles, but her mother avoids the signs and her father remains distant and absorbed in his work. Maggie is haunted by a ghost, Tommy, who she is able to open up to. Coincidentally, Maggie is studying Hamlet and there are many connections between the Shakespearean tragedy and Maggie’s story. Thrash tackles the turbulence of growing up and leaving things behind, the dangers of the world, and complicated family relationships into a haunting graphic novel.
Recommended For grades 9-12
Elizabeth Andersen
Librarian
Westbrook High School