Wannamaker Daze is a funny and poignant graphic novella book series for middle grade, tween, pre-teen, and early teen readers. The positive-role-model characters are high school students facing everyday challenges of the school social scene, complicated friendships, and shifting family dynamics. They experience ups and downs, make mistakes, and face insecurities. But they learn how to deal with challenges, growing up strong, self-confident, and resilient along the way. Life-lessons that young readers can also learn from and model.
Key teachings in the series are:
- Critical thinking, making smart choices, squashing peer pressure.
- Persevering with grit and determination, keep trying, working through hard things.
- Dealing with and overcoming negative self-talk, developing positive thinking.
- Keeping commitments, maintaining integrity.
- Being open and honest, sharing feelings, being true to yourself while respecting others.
- Considering others, practicing empathy and understanding.
- Managing feelings and emotions even through disappointments.
Get the Wannamaker Daze graphic novel series for the children in your life:
each ebook only $4.99 (U.S.D.)
Meet Joey Flores, a 15-year-old Sophomore at Wannamaker High School. Over the course of a single day, Joey experiences a slew of setbacks that leave him feeling like he is having the worst day ever. All he wants is to keep a promise he made to Audra — the girl he’s hoping for the chance to spend more time with — and keep his friendship with his bestie Ben on track. Navigating through misunderstandings, moments of self-doubt, and other unexpected challenges, Joey uses grit and determination to overcome his fears and achieve what he really wants.
Meet Audra Yang, a 14-year-old Sophomore at Wannamaker High School. She learns that a sponsorship to attend a prestigious drama camp has unexpectedly opened up! Going to the camp has been one of Audra’s big personal goals — but applications are due today. Audra starts to stress out. She'd promised her maybe-kinda-sorta-boyfriend Joey Flores that she’d go to his swim meet. If she drops everything to apply to the camp, she won’t have time to go to the meet. To make things worse, her parents want her to focus on college and taking over the family dental practice. With her stomach twisting in knots, Audra’s not sure she’s making the right choices. She ultimately learns that being honest and open with her feelings and actions is always the best decision for her and the people who care about her.
Meet Ben Binyon, a 15-year-old Sophomore at Wannamaker High School. Ben’s a busy guy! He has a part-time job to help his working single mom with expenses. And he’s doing his best to shine on the Wannamaker High School baseball team and secure an athletic scholarship. And he’s trying to deal with his mom’s boyfriend and his "weird kids” (soon to be his new step-family!). All this while balancing his shifting friendships and growing responsibilities. Soon Ben’s world is turned upside down by things out of his control and he must learn to manage his negative feelings to deal with disappointments and flip things around for the better.
Get the Wannamaker Daze graphic novel series for the children in your life:
each ebook only $4.99 (U.S.D.)