Skim
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Skim
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The work Skim represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- Skim
- Statement of responsibility
- Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
- Title variation
- Skim's journal
- Title variation remainder
- private property
- Subject
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- Comic books, strips, etc
- Depression in adolescence
- Depression in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Depression in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- Friendship in adolescence
- Friendship in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Friendship in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- Girls' schools
- trueGirls' schools
- Girls' schools -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- Goth culture (Subculture)
- trueChildren of divorced parents
- Graphic novels
- Graphic novels
- trueHigh school girls
- trueHigh schools
- trueHomosexuality
- trueIdentity
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Juvenile works
- Love in adolescence
- Love in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Love in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- trueMultiracial teenage girls
- trueSelf-acceptance
- trueSelf-acceptance in teenage girls
- trueSuicide
- Suicide
- Suicide -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- trueTeenage girls
- Teenage girls
- Teenage girls -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Teenage girls -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- trueTeenage girls -- Identity
- trueTeenagers
- trueTeenagers -- Interpersonal relations
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- trueToronto, Ontario
- Goth culture (Subculture) -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 16-year-old "Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique starts a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression
- Award
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- Doug Wright Awards: Best Book, 2009.
- Ignatz Awards, Outstanding Graphic Novel, 2008.
- New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books: 2008
- OLA Best Bets, 2008.
- Rainbow List, 2009.
- YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2009
- YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens, 2009
- Awards note
- New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book Award, 2008.
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- Dewey number
- 741.5/971
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
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- GN540L
- Decoding demand: 88 (very high)
- Semantic demand: 99 (very high)
- Syntactic demand: 81 (very high)
- Structure demand: 86 (very high)
- Intended audience source
-
- Lexile
- Lexile
- Interest level
- UG
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 10
- 12
- Nature of contents
- comics graphic novels
- Reading level
- 3.4
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- Target audience
- juvenile
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