• Sea Legs (Sea Legs #1)

Sea Legs
(Sea Legs #1)

Author
Illustrator
Niki Smith
Publication Date
February 04, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Format
Graphic Novel
Sea Legs (Sea Legs #1)

Description

Set sail for adventure! Dive in to this hilarious and moving middle grade graphic memoir about friendship, growing up, and life at sea.

Janey's family is about to set sail for the adventure of a lifetime! The only problem? Janey must leave her school, her life, her best friend, the entire country behind for new adventures -- coral reefs, colorful markets, and new cultures. Life at sea is exhilarating, but there's a major downside: when you're raising anchor every few days with sights on a new harbor, it's almost impossible to make new friends.

 

Finally, Janey meets the cool and aloof Astrid -- a fellow boat kid who's equally starved for friendship. But Astrid can be a challenging friend to navigate, and beyond that, hurricane season has only just begun . . . .

 

At turns laugh-out-loud hilarious and heartbreakingly poignant, this stunning middle grade graphic memoir charts both the turbulence and joys of growing up.

 

 

Publication date
February 04, 2025
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
256
ISBN-13
9781338835861
Publisher
Graphix
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV008000 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | General
JUV030040 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America

Kirkus

Starred Review

Authentic and engaging.

ALA/Booklist

Inspired by the author's childhood at sea, this grahic novel, by two lifelong friends, is a visually and emotionally vibrant must-read.

Jules Bakes

Jules Bakes spent her childhood sailing around the Caribbean and South America, but these days she works at Yale University. She lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, two weirdo little dogs, and the ghosts of many fish. This is her first novel.


Niki Smith is the author and artist of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated graphic novel The Deep & Dark Blue. Her book The Golden Hour was a Kirkus, SLJ, and NYPL Best Book of 2021. When she's not drawing comics, she's collecting embroidery hoops and zines and learning to draw boats. Niki now lives in Munich, Germany with her wife and two bilingual cats.