How people treat and allow different treatments of males and females is also touched on. The other part of the story is how Shannon starts to see her place not only within her friendships, but her family dynamic and the world around her. The familiar story of the dynamics of friendships once again is front and center and both educational and entertaining. Sometimes a friend might have moved onto other things, and you have not. Sometimes you will make new friends that last for years, others only for a short while. Sometimes an old grade school friend will be mean to you, sometimes they will say “Hi” in the halls, but that’s it. Still, the fact that this is based on Hale’s own growing up makes it more special to me (as I’m usually a fan of anything they write and we are of a similar age, therefore pop culture references are comfortable.).įriends Forever shows that sometimes our BFF is not going to include the Forever part. No matter the decade, subjects do not change as we still deal with friendships, boys, family, finding your friends, finding confidence, finding the right outfit. In the third installment of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s graphic Novel, we have read this story before: Eighth grader coming of age during the late 1980s.
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