But at a party under a full moon, Becca learns that they also have a big secret.īecca’s new friends are werewolves. At first glance, Marley, Arianna, and Mandy are perfect. To her surprise, she’s immediately adopted by the most popular girls in school.

When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit in. When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck-and she can’t believe their secret, either. Pretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf in this sharply funny, and patriarchy-smashing graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and artist Lisa Sterle. SQUAD is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who’s ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters.”-Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All But Becca’s new friends are more than a clique, they’re a pack, and this pack is hungry. Becca wants what every high-schooler does: to have a group of friends, a squad. (Oct.“People call them all kinds of names-creeps, jerks. Author’s agent: Jennifer Laughran, Andrea Brown Literary. Sterle’s ( Long Lost, for adults) long, lean characters don neo-1980s and ’90s fashions in art that dovetails with the economical storytelling to create an intersectional examination of high school social dynamics that doesn’t shortchange readers on adventure. Literalizing pack mentality, Tokuda-Hall ( The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea) smoothly explores the complexities of so-called sisterhood. But when Arianna’s trophy boyfriend attacks Becca, she lashes out in wolf form, and the group begins to splinter-Amanda challenges Arianna’s leadership, and Becca crushes on Marley as the FBI searches for the missing boys. Despite being conscripted into the pack, Becca enjoys the power that comes with the bargain, as well as having an outlet for her anger and hunger.

Every full moon, bubbly blonde Marley assertive Amanda, cued as Black and rich, ruthless Arianna, who reads as white, choose one sexually aggressive male as their victim-attacking at the moment when a party hookup turns nonconsensual-and they require a fourth person to help them fully devour their prey. If the popular girls at a Bay Area high school seem overly eager to befriend smart, queer, Asian-cued Becca, they have a specific reason in mind: they’re werewolves in need of another packmate.

Squad by maggie tokudahall