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"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself — possibly because he's (maybe) gay — the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But then Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school, and Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation while her best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into…

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Editions

5 editions · 2 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Groundwood Books · 140 pages · 9780888997531
  • Other · English · 2009
    Walker Books, Limited · 144 pages · 9781406321364
  • Other · English · 2008
    Publishers Group West · 9780888999641
  • Other · English · 2008
    Groundwood Books · 9781554980697
  • Hardcover · Spanish · 2009
    Ediciones La Cúpula, S.L. · 148 pages · 9788478338603
SuicideTeenage girlsLove in adolescenceDepression in adolescenceSuicidal behaviorTeenagersFriendship in adolescenceComic books, strips