Oddly Normal, Volume 1
Otis Frampton
Viper Comics, 2006
$11.95, Paperback
978-0-977-78830-9
February 15th, 2012
Genre:
Fantasy, School Story
Age: 10+
Description:
Oddly Normal is
everything but normal. She’s an outcast at school with a witch for a mother and
a human for a father (which resulted in her pointy ears and bright green hair)
and she is ignored by her parents. On her 10th birthday she makes a wish that
they would just disappear—and they do. Good thing her Great Aunt hadn’t arrived
for the party yet or else Oddly would be homeless. Auntie takes her to
Fignation—the world her mother comes from—where they try to determine what
happened to Oddly’s parents and if Oddly might have some supernatural powers
she didn’t know about.
Opinion: Oddly
is a girl many can relate too—she’s weird, she has no friends, her parents
ignore her. Going to Fignation she gets the same thing—all the weird creatures
there are normal and she’s the odd half-human! Luckily, she makes a few friends
which readers will enjoy meeting since they play on classic monster types.
Readers who enjoy mysteries will like trying to figure out what connection
Oddly’s new literature professor has to her mother and her parents’
disappearance. Awards: ALA
Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth 2006
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