Please like and subscribe to that video channel.įaith is a writer and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. And the podcast is also available on YouTube. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Visit Faith Erin Hicks’s website for more about her work and to read her webcomics.Here’s my chat with Faith Erin Hicks about her new graphic novel Ride On. Ride On has starred reviews from Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, and School Library Journal. An author’s note provides more context for the story. An absolute must-buy for graphic novel collections. Hicks’s illustration is realistic and soft, approachable.

She understands how fandom breaks through walls and unites people – for good! – and deftly uses that understanding to give us a wonderful subplot. From Norrie’s hilariously drama queen personality to Victoria’s initially brusque, withdrawn temperament, and Sam’s “bro-dude” older brothers, readers will see themselves and people they know in Ride On. Every character in Ride On is someone worth knowing, including Quinn, the newest horse in the Edgewood stable. Whether they’re new students at a boarding school ( A Year at Ellesmere), a street urchin living in a city overrun by invaders ( The Nameless City), or a homeschooled teen confronting a ghost ( Friends with Boys), she has the ability to weave the fantastic with the everyday and create special people. When the Edgewood riders are invited to a competition at Waverly, Victoria realizes that she will have to face her former best friend.įaith Erin Hicks masterfully creates characters and situations that speak to readers. She initially brushes off attempts at friendship from Norrie, one of the other students, but finds common ground in a science fiction TV show fandom and eventually lets her guard down and befriends Norrie and her friends, Hazel and Sam (the only boy at the school).

Twelve-year-old equestrienne Victoria arrives at Edgewood Stables after a break from riding following a fallout with her former best friend, Victoria. 2022, First Second), $14.99, ISBN: 9781250772824Įisner Award winner Faith Erin Hicks is back with a new graphic novel! Ride On hits on all the things my middle graders love to read about: horses, friendship, and a challenging situation.

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