Squished

By: Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter

Donated paperback 246 pages

Published: 2023

Genre: YA graphic novel

Avery Lee is an 11 year old girl with an older brother (Theo, 13) and five younger siblings. She has to share a room and resents that Theo gets his own room. She comes up with money-making ideas so she can pay to remodel the basement to get her own room. That doesn't work out so well . . . As she is "graduating" from fifth grade and getting ready to go to middle school, she is frustrated with having to care for her younger siblings and the sense that she and her friends may be growing apart.

I enjoyed it, but gave it to a young person with a large family who probably also feels "squished" at times. 

Avery also loves art and that was a neat theme throughout the book.