Besties: Prank War is a charming middle grade graphic novel by Kayla Miller and Jeffrey Canino and illustrations by Sarah Turner (4/5 stars)

Besties: Prank War is a charming middle grade graphic novel by Kayla Miller and Jeffrey Canino and illustrations by Sarah Turner.

Though this is technically the third book in The World of Click series, you can absolutely read this as a standalone; I did!

I had a fun time reading this book. The art style was fun and interesting, and there is a pretty diverse range of race, gender presentation, and body type among all of the characters. I loved the variety of color the illustrator used in this novel.

It took my brain a minute to parse the font, though. The lower-case As were throwing me off for a little bit, they looked more like lower-case Ds to me.

All of the characters seemed pretty relatable, and I laughed several times. There was one silly joke that really got me when it came up the third time (gotta love the rule of three). It feels very approachable for its intended audience.

That being said, I think the prank war went on a little long because it started to feel a bit repetitive to me. I also feel like the adults around them (especially the parents) really did not step up to help solve the issue when they absolutely could have.

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