The Truth About Stacey
2006
- juvenile fiction
- fiction
- clubs
- babysitters
- cartoons and comics
- diabetes
- friendship
- children's fiction
- babysitters, fiction
- diabetes, fiction
The story
America's favorite baby-sitters come to life in a new graphic novel series! Poor Stacey. She's moved to a new town. She's still coming to terms with her diabetes. She's facing baby-sitting problems left and right. And her parents are no help. Luckily, Stacey has three new, true friends -- Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne. Together they're the BSC -- and they will deal with whatever's thrown their way... even if it's a rival baby-sitting club!
What it’s like
Clean, bright cartoon linework with flat pastel colour and simple, readable panel layouts, the kind of comics art that leans on rounded faces, expressive small gestures and plenty of open background. Scenes sit in everyday settings: a suburban living room with lamp-lit evenings, a bedroom full of posters, a bus stop on a grey-blue afternoon, school hallways with lockers and sunlight through windows. The prose is brisk and chatty, with speech bubbles doing most of the talking and short captions setting time and place. Sound is implied rather than heard: ringing phones, a doorbell, the rustle of a pencil case. Its mood is warm and wry, with a gentle undercurrent of worry that always resolves into friendship. It suits an easy afternoon read, a rainy weekend, a comfort re-read or a cosy bedtime with a flashlight. Intensity is low: no violence or gore, no sexual content, and only mild anxiety around a character's health and a new school. Pacing is quick and episodic, and the emotional arc follows a newly-arrived girl learning to trust a small circle of friends and speak up for herself. For middle-grade readers and adults who love gentle, funny, big-hearted stories about growing up.
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