Published February 2025 via Graphix
★★★★
Like most kids, Janey goes to school and comes home—but unlike most kids, "home" for Janey is a boat. And it's time to set sail again, which means that Janey is back to homeschooling and hanging out with adults and adventures that sometimes aren't as stimulating for a kid as they are for an adult.
I love a good graphic memoir, and this is a really interesting one just for being about such a unique experience. For Janey's parents, boat life is a desirable shift from a more standard way of living, but for Janey, it's often just...lonely. Staying in touch with Janey's best friend on land is hard, there are rarely other boat kids, and even when there are, they aren't always people Janey would choose to be friends with normally. Her situation is unusual, but she's still just a normal kid with normal kid desires and emotions.
Janey's friendship with Astrid ends up being some of the most interesting material of the book. That plotline ends in a complicated way—one of those things where you wish this were fiction so that you could know more about what happened after the fact!
The art is a little cartoony for me, but it grew on me as the book went on, and it made sense for the target age range. I hope there's a follow-up eventually.
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