CB: Freestyle - Ages 8+
From New York Times bestselling author Gale Galligan, a fun, high-energy graphic novel about friendship, family, and the last hurrahs of middle school.
Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things go from bad to worse when Cory's parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He gets stuck with a new tutor, Sunna, who he dismisses as a boring nerd… until he catches her secretly practicing cool yo-yo tricks. Cory wants to learn the art of yo-yo, and as his friendship with Sunna grows, he ends up missing practice and bailing on his crew -- and they are not happy about it. With mounting pressure coming from all sides, how is Cory supposed to balance the expectations of his parents, school, dance, and his new friend?
This book is part of Scholastic's Summer Reading!
Gale Galligan is a New York Times-bestselling cartoonist and shrimp chip enthusiast. They are the creator of four BABY-SITTERS CLUB graphic novel adaptations (books five through eight!) and have written for IDW’s Sonic the Hedgehog. You can also spot them in The Claudia Kishi Club, a wonderful short documentary on Netflix.
A hard question for Gale to answer is “where are you from?”, because the answer is a little long! Gale was born in Florida, spent their elementary school years in Bangkok, Thailand and Frankfurt, Germany, and then moved to northern Virginia for middle and high school, where they were distressed to learn that Americans measure things in “inches” and “feet.”
Gale somehow survived that harrowing transition and now holds an MFA in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design. When they aren’t making comics, Gale enjoys knitting, reading, and spending time with their zoo: Lemon the leopard gecko, rabbits Dipper and Penny, Artemis the cat, Patrick the husband, and Robin the child. They live in Rockland County, New York.