A review by jkenna1990
Geeky Fab 5 Vol. 1: It's Not Rocket Science by Liz Lareau, Lucy Lareau

4.0

This is a super cute book that is all about friendship and teamwork. Our story starts off when Lucy falls on her schools old dilapidated playground and hurts her knees. This leads the school to close the playground and tear it down because to to many children were getting hurt on it. Lucy blames herself but her friends convince her that it's not her fault that the playground closed. They go on a mission to raise money to build a new playground for the school. They do all sorts of fundraising activities to raise the $20,000 that they need for the new playground. Will they make it? You'll have to find that out for yourself!

I really liked the diversity in this book as well. The parents are involved (mostly Lucy's since she is the MC), Lucy has an adopted sister, one of the other character's brother is in a wheelchair, there are all sort of skin tones among the friend group as well which is fantastic. I think this would be a great addition to any juvenile graphic novel section of a library.

Thank you to NetGalley for the review copy.