The attention to detail gives the book a lot of its warmth and charm. The panels give us the character’s emotions and create a real sense of place. Done in blues and blacks on white, with the occasional swooping panels and flowery edges, it carries a lot of the story. This is a graphic novel and the artwork is great. A sudden turn of bad fortune at the bakery forces Ari - with a little prompting from Hector - to question why he wanted to be somewhere else in the first place? While feelings are blossoming between Ari and Hector, Ari’s high school friends start to make their own plans and drift away. Over the blooming bread dough at the bakery something else starts to bloom. Suddenly those big city plans don’t seem so urgent to Ari. A year older than Ari, Hector is taking time off from culinary school, loves baking, and is eager for the job. He’ll find a replacement for himself - someone who can step in and help his parents run the bakery. To make his dream a reality Ari hatches a plan. He wants to hit the big city with his pals, looking for fame with their garage band. Like many of us when high school ends, Ari longs to break away from his small town. A coming of age romance, the book has as its main setting the family bakery owned by one of the boy's parents. Bloom by Kevin Panetta (Author) & Savanna Ganucheau (Illustrator)īloom is the story of two teen boys trying to figure out what life has in store for them post high school.
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