Skim Laura Ķeniņš perfectly captures her frustration and

perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety

As the immigrant cyclops navigate their world

he fails again and again

but you've never read one like Beautiful Darkness

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Skim Laura Ķeniņš perfectly captures her frustration andBy Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki. Published by Groundwood Books. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W, 2010. A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not slim, would be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find