{"id":114,"date":"2012-05-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2013-07-17T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:04:47","slug":"teen-boat-by-dave-roman-john-green-graphic-novel-high-school-high-seas-hijinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Teen Boat, by Dave Roman & John Green (book review) – high school & high seas hijinx"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fitting in at high school<\/a> is rarely easy,
\nbut when you start breaking out (with barnacles),
\nand the cute new girl asks you to demonstrate your skills,
\nof course Teen Boat will transform into a small yacht<\/a>,
\nright there in the high school hallway!<\/p>\n

Ignatz Award<\/a> winners Dave Roman (writer – you remember his 2011 Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity<\/i><\/a> graphic novel) and John Green (illustrator) have finally published their popular webcomic<\/a> in a full-color hardcover edition, including over 30 pages of new story. Don’t miss the “how we did it” section in the back of the book, detailing the creative team’s writing and illustrating process.<\/p>\n

Just published this week, if you don’t find Teen Boat!<\/i> at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> <\/b>yet, be sure to ask for it!
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Teen Boat! \/ written by Dave Roman, illustrated by John Green. Clarion Books, 2012. [Dave Roman’s website<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 [John Green’s website<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] \u00a0<\/b>Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>:\u00a0 Sure, every high school guy has some worries, but not every guy can transform into Teen Boat! When cute foreign exchange student Ni\u00f1a Pinta Santa Maria arrives, TB wants to impress her, so he agrees to help Harry by becoming a yacht for his party. TB\u2019s longtime pal Joey (the girl next door) warns him that the big jock is only using him for some shady scheme, but the infatuated young man\/boat doesn\u2019t listen.<\/p>\n

Offshore gambling, the Totally Pirates (seeking the legendary Tiene B\u014dt), and an iceberg attack make Harry\u2019s party more memorable than TB would have liked. After-school detention, emergency rescue, student elections, and a part-time job all become adventures when Teen Boat is involved. Just imagine what the Yacht Club field trip to Venice, Italy, is like with this crew!<\/p>\n

Will Teen Boat ever get over his paralyzing fear of entering a \u201cland vessel\u201d long enough to get his driver\u2019s license?
\nWill he ever find the girl or boat or girl\/boat who will love him?
\nWill the pirates ever stop chasing after him?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe angst of being a teen \u2013 the thrill of being a boat\u201d jumps off the pages of this graphic novel in vivid color, with new pages extending the webcomic storyline and an informative appendix that shows the step-by-step collaborative process that Roman and Green used in creating this sharply clever graphic novel.\u00a0 (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fitting in at high school is rarely easy, but when you start breaking out (with barnacles), and the cute new girl asks you to demonstrate your skills, of course Teen Boat will transform into a small yacht, right there in the high school hallway! Ignatz Award winners Dave Roman (writer – you remember his 2011 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,80],"tags":[4,125,106,45,70,44,46,43,88,15,9,21,35,3,6,53,8,28],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","tag-belonging","tag-blogathon2012","tag-boats","tag-competition","tag-crime","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-pirates","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}