Smile Raina Telgemeier

Smile is the first book in the Smile graphic novel series. The book is written by Raina Telgemeier, who is also the main character in the series. The story starts off with Raina going to the dentist and being told she needs braces. After, Rainas mom drives her to her girl scouts meeting and the story flashes to an hour later. The troop leader takes Raina and some of her other friends from scouts to Rainas house to drop her off. But, when racing to the porch Raina attempts to grab Kelli's jacket hood but falls face first to the ground.
 Her one of her front teeth get knocked out. The other gets pushed up into her gums. Raina's mom is unaware of this though and rushes her daughter home along with the tooth. Her mother calls the dentists office, get an appointment for that night, put the tooth in milk, and drive to the dentists. They give her laugh gas and pull the tooth down and the other back into place. Raina wakes up in her home with a cast on her teeth to keep them the teeth in place.
 Raina stays home from school on the first day and heads back on the next. When back at school everyone wonders how she got her two front teeth all messed up. After awhile Raina gets the cast off and it turns out her two front teeth are up even HIGHER than her others. She goes to girl scouts and shows her friends her teeth. She says how she was worried that it made her look six when another girl pointed out that her ponytails make her look six. For the rest of the story Raina is not seen wearing ponytails.
 The phrase "Smile!" is seen multiple times in the story which is how it got its name. Raina Telgemier goes over her story very well in graphic novel form and goes over all the challenges she faced such as boy confusion, earth quakes, and even dental drama.
                                                                     Julia Bock