‘Skim’ offers a startlingly clear and painful view into adolescence for those of us who possess it only as a distant memory. It’s a story that deepens with successive rereadings. But what will teenagers think? Maybe that they’ve found a bracingly honest story by a writer who seems to remember exactly what it was like to be 16 and in love for the first time.” –New York Times Book Review
2008 Governor General’s Literary Award Nominee / 2008 Ignatz Award / 2008 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books List /2009 Doug Wright Award Winner / 2009 Eisner award, nominated / 2008 Best of Books of the Year: PW, Quill & Quire / 2011 Most Awesome Book, Toms River Library Teen Gay Straight Book Club