If by “stopped” we mean “crashed into each other.” Which is why Mal crashed into Molly crashed into Jo crashed into April.īy the last WHAAAH, they had all stopped. It is very hard to go from traveling at superfast breakneck speed to a dead halt. In fact, all physical action in the book reads like a cartoon. Though the girls face many dangers, they rarely suffer harm. Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power! demonstrates progressive thinking and boasts a diversity of characters: Jo has two dads Molly and Mal appear to have feelings for one another that exceed friendship Barney – a recent addition to the camp – is a they rather than a he or she the girls eat vegan chili while another sips soy milk and rather than cursing, the girls say the names of famous women: “What the Ella Fitzgerald?!” she gasped. Now, for the first time, the adventures of April and her friends are available as a full-length middle-grade novel. Lumberjanes is a popular series of graphic novels. Keen to earn the Extraordinary Explorers medal, April concocts a plan to climb the mysterious mountain with her friends, but the journey is more perilous than expected, and getting home may not be possible. When they help a unicorn find its way home, they discover an enormous mountain that’s never been charted on any maps. At Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thisle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types, five girls from Roanoke cabin – April, Molly, Mal, Ripley, and Jo – are hard at work earning scout badges.

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