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The Puzzling Fate of Millicent Graves (a Graphic Novel)

by Dora M. Mitchell

A puzzle with reality-warping consequences

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A puzzle with reality-warping consequences

When twelve-year-old Millicent Graves finds jigsaw puzzles that let her alter the personalities of people around her, fixing family frustrations seems within reach. Her changes bring comic complications, while strange cracks shaped like puzzle pieces suggest that the effects may reach beyond the people she wants to improve. The graphic-novel format frames a middle-grade story around family upheaval, friendship, and the risks of trying to make others fit an ideal. Millie’s still-annoying neighbor Sam, who is becoming a friend, adds a social thread to the puzzle-driven magic.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Middle-grade readers, especially ages 9–12, interested in graphic novels.
  • Readers who enjoy paranormal or magical premises involving family and friendship.
  • Fans of stories about a young protagonist navigating change at home and school.

Themes

Family changeFriendshipPersonality and identityMagic and unintended consequences

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Book overview

Twelve-year-old Millicent Graves discovers she can alter the personalities of her friends and family with hilarious reality-warping results in this extra-magical middle grade graphic novel. Perfect for fans of The Witches of Brooklyn.

Twelve-year-old Millicent Grave's life is a mess. After her mom sank all their money into a fancy fish tank business, her family had to move to an apartment with three creepy landladies.

Then fate (or, actually, the Fates) leads Millie to discover a room full of jigsaw puzzles that give her the power to fix the imperfections in everyone she knows. Soon, her sister is sensible instead of gross, and her mom is successful instead of unlucky. Dad still needs some work, and her new neighbor and classmate Sam Smolt is still annoying--but he's kind of becoming her best friend anyway.

And if there are mysterious new cracks in the universe in the exact shape of those puzzle pieces, that's not a problem, right? It's not like all of reality is about to unravel. Right? . . . Right?
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