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Material Type: Book
Collection: Comics
Call Number: CAN TEENEVFIC TAM2015
Title: Skim
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Personal name: Tamaki, Jillian and Tamaki, Mariko
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Barcode # Description Status Status Dt Due Back
016056 checked in 2025-02-05 15:35:27
017055 checked in 2024-08-02 15:41:37

Additional Bibliographic Information:
Topical term or geographic name as entry element: Teen Everyday Fiction
International Standard Book Number: 9780888999641
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.: Groundwood Books (House of Anansi Press)
Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2015
Other physical details: softcover
Summary, etc. note: "Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself — possibly because he's (maybe) gay — the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But then Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school, and Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation while her best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into "real" life by setting up a hilarious double-date for the school's semi formal. Suicide, depression, love, homosexuality, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers — the whole gamut of teen life is explored in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.
Expansion of summary note: friendship, relationship, queer, LGBTQ+, lesbian, coming of age, high school, suicide, depression, mental health, sexuality, teen, adolescence, 1990s, coven, body image, PoC, BIPOC, people of colour, Asian, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canadian
Source of acquisition: Rotem Diamant
Method of acquisition: Donation
Date of acquisition: October, 2018
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