Emmie loves to draw and fills her narration with amusingly labeled doodles, while Katie's story is told comic-style. The main narrative follows a day in the life of super-shy seventh grader Emmie, who rarely speaks to a soul at school occasional sections follow "Katie," super-popular and impossibly perfect (she gets straight As, her parents have never embarrassed her, and everyone wants to be her BFF). Many readers will recognize themselves in Emmie and her friends, who are at once self-conscious and eager to be seen for who they are. Following the discovery of the love note, Katie comes to Emmie's defense, comforts her, and encourages her to stand up for herself. Inevitably, Emmie drops hers, and it is found and circulated by the obnoxious class clown. Or text." To amuse themselves during lunch in the chaotic cafeteria, Emmie and her best (and only) friend Bri compose gushy love notes to their secret crushes. In homeroom, she notices "that quiet girl. Interspersed between the illustrated chapters are comics-style panels featuring Katie, a pretty, popular, friendly, confident girl also going through the same middle school day. She copes by disappearing into her drawing notebook. INVISIBLE EMMIE CHAPTERS FULLGr 5–8-Readers follow a day in the life of Emmie, a shy, quiet eighth grader, as she scrambles to finish her homework, dreads gym class, and navigates hallways full of gossipy girls and spitty boys.
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