VERY Bad at Math
$15.99 USD
Paperback/graphic novel
High jinks, unexpected friendships, and math take center stage in this contemporary middle grade graphic novel from New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award–winning author Hope Larson.
Verity “Very” Nelson can do it all.
She’s student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist. She can even do more push-ups than anyone at her school. You could say she’s pretty much the best at everything…Well, almost everything. Everything except math.
And it’s not like she doesn’t try. Math just doesn’t make sense in her brain. But it better start soon, or else she can kiss her presidency—and her campaign promises—goodbye. Soon she finds herself enrolled in a remedial math class, where, despite her best efforts, failure persists. All seems lost until a teacher helps her discover the truth: Verity has dyscalculia, a learning disability that causes her to mix up numbers.
Armed with a new perspective, can Verity pass math, keep her presidency, and make good on her word to the student body she loves so much? Or will her presidency—and perfect reputation—all come crashing down?
Hope Larson is a New York Times bestselling, multi–Eisner Award–winning cartoonist and comics writer. Over a lengthy career as a middle grade author, she has created contemporary middle grade graphic novels like All Summer Long, dabbled in fantasy with Salt Magic (illustrated by Rebecca Mock), adapted Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time into a graphic novel, written Batgirl for DC Comics, and cocreated the Goldie Vance series for BOOM! Studios. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her family and an orange tabby, Popcorn.
“Kids are going to love the perfectly imperfect Very Nelson!” -Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese and Dragon Hoops
“Graphic novelist Larson has aimed her latest story at middle-grade readers who…will make a lot of readers feel seen. A solid addition.” -Booklist
“This is a worthy addition to the solid mix of graphic novels about middle-school girls triumphing over a significant but surmountable obstacle. Larson, as always, makes full use of the graphic novel format, allowing the illustrations to do as much work as the text, and changing up panel and -Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“With captivating characters and a thoughtful exploration of dyscalculia, this book is a wonderful addition to any library and perfect for fans of Shannon Hale’s and LeUyen Pham’s Real Friends and Raina Telgemeier’s Smile.” -School Library Journal (starred review)
ISBN: 9780063311282
240 pages Series: A Very Graphic Novel 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.2 lb WtPlease select all options.