Mixed-Up

My 11 year old granddaughter loved the book and can’t wait to read more from this author!

Story about dyslexia and the challenges around it for students. My daughter loves this book. It helps her feel seen and understood and puts someone like her as the main character. It brought up so many great ways to relate and talk about her feelings and challenges. I highly recommend this graphic novel to everyone!!! Especially girls with dyslexia or reading difficulties or friends of students with these challenges.

This is a fast and enjoyable graphic novel about middle-grade friendship struggles and self-discovery. It follows Stella (~age 10) as she starts her fifth-grade year. The first day of school is a happy one as Stella and her best friends are all placed in the same class. But trouble brews as Stella's friends spend more and more time playing an online game--a game Stella wants to play but can't understand. Stella also falls behind in school, spending many recesses indoors catching up on work and also to avoiding the chatter about the online game. The conflict revolves positively and realistically. The art is also colorful and engaging. Overall, it's a solid pick for any child who likes graphic novels. But here's what I LOVE about this book. It actually gets dyslexia right! Too many books with dyslexic characters perpetuate stereotypes or promote outdated "cures." In contrast, this book is on point both in how dyslexia is depicted and the type of help Stella receives. This is so, so needed! A copy of this book needs to be in every classroom in America. As the mother of dyslexic twins, five million stars! More books about Stella, please!

My daughter, age 11, enjoyed this book.

I saw this on my daughters scholastic book form and she had just finished a book so I ordered it for her. She finished it in a half an hour, lol, but she loved it and she wants to read it again after she waits a little while so I highly recommend. She’s 10 and reads a lot and writes her own stories- she said this was a great book!