![]() ![]() ![]() And that affected the way other people saw me!” Cynical, Telgemeier is not. The book had a hyper-sincere moral: “The more I focused on my interests, the more it brought out things I liked about myself. A sixth grader and a Girl Scout, Raina trips and knocks her front teeth out of place, which leads to a four-and-a-half-year ordeal of braces, false teeth, retainers and headgear. Telgemeier’s charming “Smile,” an autobiographical account of her junior high orthodontic treatment, was a best seller when it came out in 2010. But this is a narrative belied by the thriving field of age-appropriate books epitomized by the nice-girls-finish-first graphic novels of Raina Telgemeier, poetic illustrator of middle-school life. ![]() The parenting-book world is flooded with jeremiads about how tween culture breeds sociopaths and prostitots, ergo we should unplug the Internet. ![]()
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