A Map to the Sun
A Map to the Sun
By Sloane Leong
This gorgeous graphic novel presents a diverse group of friends forming a basketball team in a school dismissive of girls’ sports and as a positive alternative to their difficult home and personal lives.
Themes of friendship and teamwork are realistically portrayed with all the arguments, communication breakdowns, and make-ups that are common in true friendship and team sports.
Overall, you’ll get a respectful engagement with painful topics like body image, family issues, sexism, and inappropriate relationships but also a heart warming message of friendship, understanding, and respect.
Throughout, the opportunities sport provides for self-determination and growth are strongly represented. Plus, if you’re into art, you’ll love how Leong uses colour to create mood and how she portrays dynamic and dramatic movement in the sports scenes.
Bibliographic data
| Publisher & imprint | First Second |
| Publication date | 16 October 2020 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Format | Paperback graphic novel |
| Subjects | Sport, Relationships, Coming of Age, Comics |
| ISBN | 9781250146687 |