I honestly do not get why this graphic novel is so popular. Barbara is completely unlikable. She's your typical angry geek girl who hates everyone except herself. Plus, what's up with the bunny ears she has throughout the book? The "giant" that supposedly is so big and scary and haunting is that her mother is dying of cancer. I, frankly, was expecting something far far worse given the title and the implications throughout the first half of the book. Something like abuse or incest. Something that might explain why Barbara is so awful. Instead we get her mother terminally ill, yet she has an older sister who takes care of her. Barbara must eventually come to terms with this....but she's still unlikable. Plus, the art is so simplistic as to seem that it's strips from a newspaper. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, let alone a middle schooler dealing with death.
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