Cynthia L. Copeland is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 25 books, including Really Important Stuff My Dog Has Taught Me and The Diaper Diaries. Her books have sold more than a million copies in eight languages, and have been featured on Good Morning America, selected for Oprah's "O List" in O: The Oprah Magazine, and recommended by Ann Landers. Ms. Copeland lives in New Hampshire with her family.
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2020
A Mighty Girl 2020 Book of the Year
One of Book Riot's "10 Middle Grade Graphic Novels to Gift
This Year"
"In both its story and its buoyant artwork-the groovy coloring was
done by Ronda Pattinson-Copeland gets so many things right. She
gets the nuances of hippie-chic '70s teenage fashion. She gets the
daffy chatter of cousins after Thanksgiving dinner has been eaten.
('Eat it! Eat the weird pie!') She gets the ordinary heartbreak
when, again and again, Cindy's father reflexively nourishes the
ambitions of her brothers, looking past her as if she is invisible.
('You know, John, I think you'd be an excellent politician!' ) And
she gets the way that Cindy's immediate problems, like a friend
scorning her in the hall, can feel as vivid and epoch-defining as
Watergate or the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment . . .
Cub offers a road map for the . . . Cindys of today,
proposing to the awkward and the ambitious that they are not, in
fact, hostage to the merciless social sorting that can happen
within the confines of middle school . . . Look outward, this
delightful book advises. A great big world is waiting."
-The New York Times Book Review
"This charming, intelligent, funny book is a sharp look into the
middle school ecosystem, its shifting allegiances, its hormonally
charged confusions. It follows seventh-grader Cindy as she
navigates cliques and crushes and takes on a role as a cub reporter
under the wing of an ambitious young woman journalist. Copeland
nails the cringy pre-teen humiliations, and the book also serves as
a primer on lede-writing and journalistic ethics, as well as
showing a person coming into her own and learning how to be the
author of her own story."
-Boston Globe
"Copeland's first graphic novel for kids successfully integrates
the right balance of coming-of-age issues into those arising from
her early-'70s setting; many of the latter are eerily similar to
those that the country is still experiencing. This tale of
middle-grade angst and self-consciousness is laced with humor and
nostalgia."
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Deftly juggling Cindy's school days, internship, and home life,
Copeland crafts a multilayered, year-in-the-life story within a
complex historical context."
-Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Raina Telgemeier fans will lap this up, particularly though who
need a shot of courage or reassurance heading into the maelstrom of
middle school."
- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Engaging and interesting . . . this [book] made me ridiculously
happy."
-YA Books Central
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