Sink or Swim: (A Graphic Novel)

by Veronica Agarwal, Lee Durfey-Lavoie

Overview

Summer is here! School’s out, the pool is open, and new adventures with friends await! But what happens when twelve year old Ty’s anxiety has other plans? From the world of Just Roll With It comes a boy-centric graphic novel about accepting yourself even when it’s a little scary.

Bouncing back from a broken arm should be no big deal—but when Ty spends a month off the swim team the thought of getting back in the water is suddenly not as fun as it used to be. 

After weeks of ignoring his friends, Ty isn't sure how to connect with them again in summer camp. They used to have swim team together but after so long without swimming he's out of shape and afraid of failing in front of them. With his friendships fracturing, will Ty be able to gain confidence in himself and fix everything before it's too late?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781984897046
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/04/2024
Series:	Just Roll with It , #2
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	874,026
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Lee Durfey-Lavoie loves role-playing games and spending time with his cat. He's college drop-out who was able to find a career in writing.

Veronica Agarwal is a Cartoonist and Illustrator from NYC. She graduated from SVA in May 2016 with a BFA in Cartooning. She loves plants, summertime, dogs and her three cats! Her work focuses on mental health, coming of age stories, and friendship.

Editorial Reviews

"Earnest summertime adventures and lessons on self-love." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2024-03-23
Camp was going to be amazing for Tyler de Lugo and his best friends, Max and Heather Allen, in this stand-alone follow-up to Just Roll With It (2021).

But then Ty broke his arm and missed an entire season as captain of the swim team. Afterward, Ty ghosted the siblings, so their arrival at Silver Falls is fraught with hurt feelings. Ty, who has brown skin and wavy black hair, can’t bring himself to go in the water, let alone participate in a swimming competition. Yet camp also brings Ty a new group of friends and advice from a quirky counselor. He hunts for bugs and develops an interest in tabletop role-playing games. Ty, along with Max and Heather, who have light skin and red hair, take on the challenge of building a canoe from scratch. All these experiences buoy him as he feels like he’s drowning, but Max’s forgiveness is still in question—and so are the feelings of Ty’s secret crush. Agarwal’s loose designs and casual, sketchy, bright style express both poignancy and humor, and her characters’ facial expressions are adorable. Ty’s overwhelming feelings of depression are shown by waves washing over him and blurred text in speech bubbles. After his injury and subsequent weight gain, Ty’s self-loathing is clearly evident, but readers may be left wanting a stronger impression of who he is outside of his struggles.

Earnest summertime adventures and lessons on self-love. (Graphic fiction. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews