She is the author of the YA novels You're Welcome, Universe and Chaotic Good, as well as the creator of Fake Blood and Long Distance and the illustrator for Debbie Levy's Becoming RBG. If there's ever a moment when she isn't drawing, she's likely to be found rolling twenty-sided dice. She started drawing stick figures in second grade and somehow no one's been able to stop her. But when her cellphone unexpectedly calls it quits and things at camp start getting stranger and stranger, Vega has no choice but to team up with her bunkmates to figure out what's going on!Ībout the Author Whitney Gardner is an author, illustrator, and cartoonist. A middle schooler comes head-to-head with his vampire slayer crush in this. Except Vega is determined to get her old life back. Girls Life A Huffington Post Best Childrens Book of 2018.

To help her settle into her new life in Seattle, her parents send Vega off to summer camp to make new friends. Forced to leave her one and only best friend, Halley, behind, Vega is convinced she'll never make another friend again. When her parents decide it's time to pack up and leave her hometown of Portland, Oregon, behind for boring Seattle, Washington, Vega is more than upset-she's downright miserable. Vega's summer vacation is not going well. About the Book After moving to Seattle, Vega's dads send her to the very strange Camp Best Friend, where she discovers that one can make new friends without forgetting old ones.īook Synopsis From the creator of Fake Blood comes another exceptionally charming middle grade graphic novel about friendships both near and far, far away.

Long distance by whitney gardner