Madera and student stage manager Loren, announcing the upcoming production of the fictional Civil War-era romantic musical Moon over Mississippi with her as returning set designer and is excited to implement her plans. At school, Callie joins the meeting of the stage crew, led by Mr. Much to Callie's delight, she shares a kiss with Greg. Greg responds by blushing and saying that Callie "is cool, but." And Callie says that the girl, Bonnie Lake, that Greg recently broke up with was stuck up and a drama queen. In the first scene, she is walking home with her friends Greg and Matt Solano – who are also brothers – where she confesses her feelings for Greg, an upperclassmen baseball superstar and one of her best friends. The main character of Drama is Callie Marin, a grade seven student, major theatre enthusiast and member of the Theatre Tech Department's stage crew at Eucalyptus Middle School. Telgemeier has since continued to write graphic novels with a similar growing up theme for her four other novels of Sisters, Smile, Guts, and Ghosts. The graphic novel itself combines both manga and comic forms, which the author frequently read while growing up. Although Telgemeier originally intended the characters to be high schoolers, Scholastic believed the setting was more appropriate for middle school. The twin brothers, Jesse and Justin, resemble two of Telgemeier's actual friends, and their in-book personalities mirror their real-life personalities. Several characters in the graphic novel are based on real people in Telgemeier's own personal life. In high school, Telgemeier was in the choir and sang in the ensemble for many school plays, which ultimately drew her inspiration for writing Drama.
Although Drama is a work of fiction, she draws from her personal experiences to create content. In an interview with School Library Journal, author Raina Telgemeier responds to a question about her inspiration for the graphic novel by saying she wrote from her life experiences, such as what she felt, saw and knew.
You’ll definitely zip right through these, even if you do have to take a couple of breaks to turn on all the lights in your apartment and check to make sure no one is hiding in your closet.īTW, if you want even more scary reading recommendations, consider the best dystopian books, best mystery books, best true-crime books, and best horror books of all time.Graphic novel, coming-of-age, children's bookĭrama is a graphic novel written by American cartoonist Raina Telgemeier which centers on the story of Callie, a middle school student and theater-lover who works in her school's drama production crew. Here are 30 of the best thriller books you won’t be able to put down until you’ve turned the last page, from the most classic suspense novels to the newest murder mysteries and even a few reads that have gotten the Hollywood treatment.
And fine, this is just a working theory, but I’m pretty sure that if you get your heart pumping from reading a truly terrifying book, that’s basically the same thing as doing a bit of high-intensity cardio? (Please, just let me have this one.)
Truthfully, the best part about thrillers is that you get so zoned in to their deranged plotlines that hours and hours of reading will go by and feel like just a few minutes-which, TBH, is *exactly* what all of us need right now given how much free time we have on our hands. I need a book so psychologically messed up that it’ll burn into my brain for the rest of eternity! I’m fine, I promise. Which is why I’ve lately been in the mood to devour thrillers. Sometimes I even have a hard time remembering which ones I’ve read already because they all start to mush together in my memory. Is it just me, or do all nice books kinda feel the same? Two people meet, fall in love, something mildly sad happens, they get over it, and then they run off into the sunset together.