What Happens Next?: Newsroom Nonsense

by Jess Smart Smiley

Overview

In the third volume of the What Happens Next? graphic novel series, YOU decide whether Sunbright Middle School’s student newspaper is a hit— or if Megan and her friends will have to stop the presses forever!

Megan Hathaway was supposed to be helping put together a newspaper for her English class...but everything is going wrong.

Weird Randall keeps trying to mail potatoes, evil Vice-Principal Mr. Fisher has imprisoned the class's best artist, and...oh geez...Olivia just yarked in a trombone! Can you help Megan save school journalism?! Or will you let Sunbright Middle School's secrets remain hidden forever?!

With more than twenty-five different endings, Newsroom Nonsense is a breaking news saga you’ll be coming back to over and over.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250890993
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	04/09/2024
Series:	What Happens Next?
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Jess Smart Smiley is a joke—seriously.

He makes rad pictures with his bare hands and has helped thousands of children, teens, and adults around the world to create their first comics.

Jess is the creator of Let's Make Comics!: An Activity Book to Create, Write, and Draw Your Own Cartoons. He loves sharing his passion for writing, drawing, and storytelling with schools, libraries, bookstores, and students of all ages and skill levels.

Jess lives in Utah with his wife and four children.

Editorial Reviews

"Readers will appreciate the multiple takes on the absurd world of middle school." –Kirkus

From the Publisher

2024-02-03
Megan wants to work on the class newspaper, but in this Choose Your Own Adventure–style graphic novel advertising over 100 paths and 25 endings, she’s easily distracted.

Mr. Fisher is waiting for a new photocopier to be delivered to Sunbright Middle School. As usual for this series, he homes in on Megan to assist him. She’d rather go to class, where they’re starting a newspaper. Whether Megan helps Mr. Fisher or not, each subsequent decision leads to a variety of outcomes, from the somewhat expected (many paths end in Mr. Fisher’s office) to the out there (as when Megan’s carried away by seagulls). Vibrant colors and loose, flowing lines capture the hyper action of each storyline. While it’s not necessary to have read the two previous books, fans of the series will delight in their growing familiarity with the themes and characters: Those in the know who are anticipating Olivia’s barf scene will not be disappointed, and in one episode, the Sunbright Muck Man makes his mysterious appearance. Romantics will happily follow the ongoing saga of Megan’s crush on Dillon, which offers a satisfying ending when Dillon sacrifices himself to save Megan from the wrath of Mr. Fisher. Fellow student Mitch’s comics about Mr. Fisher are interspersed, offering an additional treat throughout. Most characters are light-skinned.

Readers will appreciate the multiple takes on the absurd world of middle school. (cast of characters, how to read this book, drawing directions) (Graphic fiction. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews