Drama

Drama
By Raina Telgemeier
Reviewed by Mirainda


                                                         
Drama is a fantastic graphic novel written about a girl named Callie. It is written very nicely and the illustrator is amazing.

The book starts out with Matt, Callie, and Greg. When Greg takes Callie to the park they kiss and it changes everything, because she’s liked him for forever. When they’re at school Greg acts like it never happened, and won’t even really talk to her.

Callie is a part of stage crew at her school and they are producing a show, The Moon Over the Mississippi. While she’s putting up posters she meets Justin and Jesse. Justin wants to be in the show, and Jesse is his twin brother, he does his homework and tries to blend in with the crowd. 

Callie loves hanging out with Jesse, they like all the same things they even go to bookstores together. After all this Callie and Jesse have to watch the tryouts for the show and Callie wants Jesse to audition, so she auditions terribly to let Jesse know it’s okay, and not to be scared.

Then the cast lists came up. Justin got a part, but it wasn’t the lead so he was sad. Then there were rehearsals, dress rehearsals, fittings, learning songs and lines. Then, Finally the shows! Over the past few days Callie realized that she liked Jesse, and she wanted him to ask her to the dance that was being held after the last show.

The shows went very good, but the last one was the most memorable. West and Bonnie are a couple inside and outside of the show, but after act 1 West broke up with Bonnie, therefore she wouldn’t go out on the stage. Jesse knew all the lines of the show because he’s known it since he was small, so he put on that dress and went out as Bonnie and did amazing.

Then, Jesse comes to the after party and asks Callie to go to the dance with him. The dance went well until Jesse went to the bathroom and never came back. Callie eventually caught him outside talking to West. Then Jesse had to explain to Callie that he’s gay.

After all of this Callie bumped into Greg, and he took her to the park, Again. And leans in to try to kiss her. Will she kiss him back? Will she fix things with Jesse? Read the book to find out!