Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell

 

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell -- 209 pages

Deja and Josiah have worked at the Pumpkin Patch every fall for the past three years.  This is their last year there before college and their last chance.  It's Josiah's last chance to talk to the cute girl at the Fudge Shop and Deja's last chance to try all the different foods.  So they go on a mission to accomplish their dreams . . .

This was a cute graphic novel by Rainbow Rowell and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks.  While you could tell exactly where the story was going to go the entire time it was fun to read along on their journey. 

Buffy: The High School Years - Freaks & Geeks by Faith Erin Hicks

Buffy: The High School Years - Freaks & Geeks by Faith Erin Hicks - 78 pages

This tells an original story of the high school years of Buffy the vampire slayer.  Buffy misses her old life before becoming a slayer and worries that her friends don't really care for her.

I picked this up after seeing it on the 2017 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. I enjoyed Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a television show and have always liked Faith Erin Hicks as a graphic novelist.  It was a fairly decent graphic novel although I thought it was really too short.  The short length didn't allow for true development instead merely telling us the story rather than revealing it through the details.