Then she runs into Tyler, who says hello to her. The bell rings and she runs to history class, but she runs into Joe in the hall and he teases her and tells her he showed it to Tyler. She walks her back to class and gives Joe a dirty look.Īfter health, Emmie goes to Spanish and mopes because she thinks her life is over. In the comic strip, Katie comes into the bathroom and comforts Emmie. Emmie runs out of the classroom and cries in the bathroom. While Emmie is looking for supplies, Joe Lungo reads her note to Tyler out loud. When the heater is fixed, Emmie and her class go back to health class and design collages. They sit together and talk while in the comic strip Katie sits with her friends in the library and gossips about Tyler. Joe Lungo shows her a love letter to Tyler Ross that he found on the ground.Įmmie goes to health class, but the heater is broken so the class goes into the library where Brianna is working through her study hour. In the comic strip, Katie eats lunch with all her friends and Tyler, and then she goes to her locker. When the bell rings, the girls rush to class, and Emmie drops a piece of paper. The girls decide to write love-letters to their crushes as a joke. She says yes and is very happy.Īfter English, Emmie goes to lunch, where she sits with Brianna. In the comic strip, Tyler passes Katie a note that asks her to go out with him. After PE, Emmie goes to English class, which she has with her crush, Tyler Ross. In the comic strip, Katie goes to PE and has a blast because she is in great shape and all her friends are in that class, too. Katie feels bad for Emmie, but she thinks that the girl needs to stand up for herself.Įmmie goes to PE, which she hates because she is not athletic. She watches as Joe Lungo, a bully, steals Emmie’s notebook and laughs at the drawing of Katie.
In the comic strip, Katie goes into science class and sits with all her friends. She draws in her notebook so that she has something to focus on besides her anxiety. In the comic strip, Katie goes to homeroom and sits with all her friends, who tell her that a boy likes her.Īfter homeroom, Emmie stops at the bathroom where she fantasizes about a vacation from school and then she goes to science class where no one talks to her. Now that they are in middle school, they spend a lot of time apart and their friendship is strained. Homeroom is the only class they have together because Brianna is gifted and placed into all the advanced classes. Emmie meets her best friend since kindergarten, Brianna, before homeroom and they walk to class together.
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In the comic-strip, Katie arrives at school full of happiness and joy as everyone moves aside so she can reach her locker and her large group of friends. She is frightened to tell two boys standing in front of her locker to move because she is so shy and so afraid of talking to new people, especially boys. On Monday morning, Emmie wakes up and goes to school. In the first comic book section, Katie introduces herself as a beautiful, athletic, popular girl with a picture-perfect life. Emmie spends a lot of time alone, and in this time she discovers that she loves to draw. She is 13 years old and she lives with her two distant parents who are revamping their careers now that Emmie’s siblings have all moved out and gone on to college. But Emmie is a main character who is simply quiet and unremarkable, neither bullied or popular, but simply invisible.Īs the novel starts in earnest, Emmie introduces herself. In the prelogue, Emmie talks about all the YA books that she has read, and said that most of them feature a main character who is an outcast for a specific reason and is bullied because of that reason. The novel begins with a “prelogue” in which Emmie tells us that she has turned into a puddle of slime, and that she will explain how this happened and why. All of the action is told in colorful panels that feature captions, thought-bubbles, and dialogue-bubbles. Katie’s sections resemble a traditional comic book. Emmie’s sections resemble a traditional novel with lots of white space and black words, interspersed with small sketches that add to the narrative. The novel seems to rotate its point of view between quiet and timid Emmie and the perfect and beautiful Katie, but in the end we learn that Katie is a fictional cartoon character created by Emmie, who draws comics in her notebook in order to help her deal with the pressures and stresses of being a girl in middle school. Invisible Emmie is a graphic novel that is told in the first person by the main character, Emmie. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Libenson, Terri.
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