Cici's Journal: Lost and Found

by Joris Chamblain, Aurélie Neyret (Illustrator)

Overview

Uncover the secrets hidden within Cici's heart in this captivating graphic novel!

As an aspiring writer, Cici has a knack for asking the right questions and finding the clues she needs to unlock people's hearts. Despite her talent for helping others, Cici has been harboring a dark and painful secret of her own.

Cici's friends and mom are eager to help her heal, but she keeps pushing them away. Will a mysterious mansion, a treasure hunt, and an epic beachside confrontation finally encourage her to open up and confront her past?

Join Cici on a journey of self-discovery, friendship, and the power of writing in Cici's Journal: Lost and Found. With stunning artwork and a compelling story, this graphic novel is perfect for young readers who love mysteries, adventure, and the art of storytelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250846860
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	07/20/2021
Series:	Cici's Journal
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	184 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Joris Chamblain stumbled into graphic novels when he was very little and decided at an early age that comics would be his career. His first comic book series, Cici's Journal (Les Carnets de Cerise in French) won the Youth Prize at the Angouleme International Comics festival in 2014 and no less than twenty awards. Nowadays he devotes all his time to writing comics and books for kids, and even trying his hand at a novel. He and his many artistic collaborators have quite a few projects in the works.

Aurélie Neyret is an illustrator from Lyon, France. When she was little, she loved to hide away and read all night long, and—more than anything else—to draw! Today, her approach to life hasn’t changed much, and she works hard to bring her projects to fruition.

Editorial Reviews

"Movingly shows how human life contains more mysteries than any hidden room or secret code."—Kirkus

"The format, a mix of journal and scrapbook, combined with Neyret’s ethereal and luminous artwork, will draw in even the most reluctant readers."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2021-05-19
A 12-year-old aspiring writer seeks answers in this graphic mystery from France.

In this sequel to Cici’s Journal (2021), readers become reacquainted with a slightly older but still winsome and intrepid Cici. Now in middle school, Cici lives in a small village with her single mother. Cici wants to be a writer when she grows up, and her journal becomes not only integral to that pursuit, but also a vehicle for opening communication with her mother following a painful rift. While the mysteries Cici encounters—a highly personal scavenger hunt, a mansion with a hidden secret—are powerful page-turners, this book is really about history, trauma, reconciliation, and the deeply interconnected lives of the people in Cici’s orbit. Readers see Cici’s inquisitiveness grow, driving her to take on bigger and more mature subjects, including lost love, parental death, traumatic memory loss, hidden pain, and boundaries. The self-conscious whimsy of the text and luminous beauty of the art contrast with some of the heavier topics. The series’ signature style continues to be a triumph, as the book-within-a-book feature is much expanded in this volume to include diagrams, asides from Cici, doodles, notes, and even recipes. Cici and most other characters are White; one of her closest friends comes from a Black family that has a recurring presence in the story.

Movingly shows how human life contains more mysteries than any hidden room or secret code. (Graphic mystery. 10-13)

Kirkus Reviews