My Thoughts:
This graphic novel by Author Rainbow Rowell and illustrator Faith Erin Hicks is so darn cute and funny. Deja and Josiah are pumpkin season best friends who have been working side by side throughout high school in the succotash booth of the "best pumpkin patch in the whole world" through Halloween. On this last day of their jobs before they both go off to college, Deja is determined to support Josiah in finally talking to the girl he has been pining for every pumpkin season but has never talked to. They ditch their duties to search for Fudge girl and while Deja coaches the very nervous Josiah, she also cannot help but stand in line at every snack booth to end this last night with a bang. Their whirlwind night is a comedy of errors as the girl he is pining for seems to also be moving booths. Throw in a very fast, very cheeky kid who steals Deja's snacks from her (multiple times - caramel apple, kettle corn, Freetoh pie) as well as an escaped goat and lots of exes (male and female) who Deja seems to have dated throughout the three years working at the farm, and you have a story that just makes you want to find this mythical pumpkin patch. The illustrations by Hicks really do add the right amount of pumpkin spice to this story. This one is a must buy to add to my graphic novel collection.
From the Publisher:
In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award–winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a place―and a person―with no regrets.
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September 1.
But this Halloween is different―Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.
Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if―instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut―they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . .
What if their last shift was an adventure?
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September 1.
But this Halloween is different―Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.
Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if―instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut―they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . .
What if their last shift was an adventure?
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