A review by agathe_athena
Shark Summer by Ira Marcks

4.0

Gayle was an all-star pitcher, until an on-field collision cost her a broken arm. Now benched, she is not looking forward to a summer with nothing to do. But then a big-time Hollywood film crew comes to Martha’s Vineyard to shoot a movie with a large mechanical shark, and Gayle makes friends with Elijah who wants to be a filmmaker himself. They decide to make a film for the youth film contest about an interesting local story. Maddie, an odd kid who lives in the lighthouse, tells them the story of the Atwood Shark, and agrees to help them if they find out what really happened to Captain Atwood. But as they are putting their film together, they find that not all locals want the story told.

This was a fun graphic novel about summer, friendship, story-telling, and movie-making. Well-crafted story and well told, with very relatable characters and conflicts.