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Terri Libenson is the cartoonist of the internationally syndicated comic strip, The Pajama Diaries. She is also an award-winning humorous card writer for American Greetings Corp. Like Emmie in Invisible Emmie, Terri grew up shy and artistic in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She now lives a more outgoing life with her husband and two daughters in Cleveland, Ohio.
This is middle grade fiction at its best. A fantastic debut novel with plenty of laughs and tons of heart. Invisible Emmie is unforgettable! --Lincoln Peirce, author of Big Nate This funny and heartfelt tale will ring true for anyone who's ever felt invisible. --Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor author-illustrator of Roller Girl Clever, funny work by a great cartoonist. Reading Invisible Emmie sums up middle school: You laugh, you cry, you get beaned in the head with a volleyball. --Stephan Pastis, author of Timmy Failure In her first children's book, cartoonist Libenson offers strikingly different visions of seventh grade through two very dissimilar narrators. A well-executed twist will have readers flipping back to see what they missed while cheering the strides made by Libenson's no-longer-invisible heroine. --Publishers Weekly Many readers will recognize themselves in Emmie and her friends, who are at once self-conscious and eager to be seen for who they are. A highly relatable middle grade drama. --School Library Journal With all-too-familiar middle-school drama and an empowering lesson about speaking up and bravely facing down embarrassment, this should find an easy audience among fans of Wimpy Kid or Dork Diaries books. --Booklist Libenson's clever tale will entertain readers in the throes of middle school as well as younger students both wary of and intrigued by their near future. --The Horn Book
