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16yearold Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal the kind of place where everyone knows everyone elses business Her parents are divorced and shes just been suspended for cursing out a school aide She has two best friends Lusa and Fred but wants something moreThen from afar she sees Pardalita a senior and a gifted artist whos moving to Lisbon to study in the fall The two girls get to know each other while working on a play And Raquel falls in loveFrom author/artist Joana Estrela comes Pardalita a beautiful sliceoflife story that is This One Summer meets Ursula K Le Guins Very Far Away from Anywhere Else Told in a gorgeous blend of prose poems Estrela captures the feeling of being 16 in a way that feels gentle joyful and real