Absolutely Everything Explores the Perils of Middle School and ADHD

Life is hard capable for preteen girls without adding an ADHD diagnosis into the mix. That's the conflict astatine the bosom of Absolutely Everything, a heartfelt caller graphic caller from writer/artist Damian Alexander and steadfast Graphic Universe.

With Absolutely Everything hitting stores connected Tuesday, September 9, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the book. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Here's the authoritative statement for Absolutely Everything:

Lately, beingness feels similar a batch for Marcella. Sixth people seems analyzable connected purpose. Marcella keeps forgetting her homework oregon getting distracted portion she’s doing it. Plus, her bestie has caller friends, and her parents adjacent privation to determination apartments. She’s trying to support way of the changes—but perfectly everything is stressing her out! Does Marcella conscionable request to unit herself to “be better”—or is determination different mode for her to make a way to the beingness she wants?

"Marcella’s favourite teacher tasks her people with penning their archetypal long-form idiosyncratic essays featuring a taxable of their choosing," Alexander says of the excerpt above. "Marcella enjoyed journaling successful this people each twelvemonth and loves to write… but her anxieties get her encephalon tangled up successful choices. What if she picks the incorrect topic? What if her effort is atrocious and she lets her teacher down? Is she adjacent capable to constitute an effort that long? As the remainder of her people excitedly chats astir their archetypal accidental to brainstorm a taxable of their choosing, Marcella begins to spiral."

Absolutely Everything volition beryllium released connected September 9. You tin preorder a transcript connected Amazon.

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