{"id":39635,"date":"2021-07-22T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T02:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=39635"},"modified":"2021-07-22T22:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T02:45:59","slug":"review-of-allergic-by-megan-wagner-lloyd-and-michelle-mee-nutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=39635","title":{"rendered":"Review of Allergic, by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/allergic_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/allergic_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39684\" \/><\/a><em>Allergic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter<\/p>\n<p>Graphix (Scholastic), 2021.  238 pages.<br \/>\nReview written June 25, 2021, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p><em>Allergic<\/em> is a sweet graphic novel about a girl who\u2019s planning to get a dog for her tenth birthday \u2013 and breaks out in a rash after she\u2019s given her heart to one.  It turns out that she\u2019s allergic to anything with fur or feathers.<\/p>\n<p>This has repercussions.  Maggie\u2019s class can\u2019t have a class pet.  When her new friend who moved in next door gets a puppy, that means Maggie can\u2019t come over any more.<\/p>\n<p>She tries to cope in ways that turn out to be both bad and good.  The idea of trying to secretly keep a mouse in her closet turns out to be not so great.  Meanwhile, Maggie\u2019s mom is expecting a baby soon, and Maggie\u2019s feeling a little left out.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures in this graphic novel are adorable, and the reader will love Maggie and her family.  Her plight will capture the sympathy of readers, helping them see a perspective maybe different from their own.  All while reading and viewing a great story with plenty of conflict in a popular format.  This book will fly off the shelves, and deservedly so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganwagnerlloyd.com\/\">meganwagnerlloyd.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michellemee.com\/\">michellemee.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/home\">scholastic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1338568906\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/allergic.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/allergic.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter Graphix (Scholastic), 2021. 238 pages. Review written June 25, 2021, from a library book Starred Review Allergic is a sweet graphic novel about a girl who\u2019s planning to get a dog for her tenth birthday \u2013 and breaks out in a rash after she\u2019s given her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,37,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-contemporary","category-graphic-novel","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39685,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635\/revisions\/39685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}