Sheets Volume 1

"For days after reading Brenna Thummler's Sheets

I have been wandering my neighborhood, haunted, enchanted, and in need of

freshly pressed clothing." -Lemony

Snicket

Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A

practical thirteen-year-old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily

routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the

fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she's worked

for.

Wendell is a ghost. A boy who lost his

life much too young, his daily routine features ineffective death therapy, a

sheet-dependent identity, and a dangerous need to seek purpose in the forbidden

human world.

When their worlds collide,

Marjorie is confronted by unexplainable disasters as Wendell transforms Glatt's

Laundry into his midnight playground, appearing as a mere sheet during the day.

While Wendell attempts to create a new afterlife for himself, he unknowingly

sabotages the life that Marjorie is struggling to

maintain.

Sheets illustrates the

determination of a young girl to fight, even when all parts of her world seem to

be conspiring against her. It proves that second chances are possible whether

life feels over or life is over. But above all, it is a story of the forgiveness

and unlikely friendship that can only transpire inside a haunted

laundromat.

"Brenna Thummler's first original

graphic novel is a reason to celebrate. She announced herself as an artist to

reckon with when she illustrated Mariah Marsden's adaptation of Anne of Green

Gables. Now she's illustrated her own story of ghosts and family, loneliness and

laundromats. I'm sure you'll be captivated, and as eager as I am to see what

comes next!"-Brian Selznick, author of Wonderstruck and The Invention

of Hugo Cabret

"Sweet, sad, funny, warm, and beautiful. If I can be

forgiven for using this word, this is one that will haunt me, in the best

way."-Dana Simpson