By Terri Libenson
One last day of seventh grade, told turn by turn from both best friends, as two girls drift apart and only one of them sees it coming.
It's the last day of seventh grade. Jaime and Maya have been best friends since they were little, but a cooler group has started pulling Maya in, and they've decided Jaime doesn't belong. The whole book plays out across that one day, told in turn by each girl, as a friendship that's lasted their whole lives quietly comes apart.
The pull here is the double view. You hear the same day from Jaime, who feels herself being dropped, and from Maya, who's scared and going along with a crowd she knows is being unkind. A child reading it sees that the friend doing the leaving isn't a monster, just a girl caught between people. Libenson tells one girl's side in prose-with-pictures and the other's in full comic panels, so it moves fast and never feels like homework. And it doesn't hand you a neat reconciliation at the end.