{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0545902487?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"0545902487","authors":["Jarrett J. Krosoczka"],"book_id":"9780545902489","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/hey-kiddo-a-graphic-novel-9780545902489","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780545902489.jpg?v=045be60c2e04b666","description":"The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father. Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780545902489","publication_date":"20181009","publisher":"Scholastic Inc.","slug":"hey-kiddo-a-graphic-novel","subtitle":"","title":"Hey, Kiddo: a Graphic Novel"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"YAN012040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Graphic Social Topics","score":0.7832,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN012010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Graphic Biography","score":0.7816,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN018060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Parents","score":0.78,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"YAN012040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Graphic Social Topics","score":0.7832,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN012010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Graphic Biography","score":0.7816,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN018060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Parents","score":0.78,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"YAN018000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Family","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"YAN051000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Social Topics for Teens","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"YAN051060","confidence_band":"high","label":"Depression & Mental Health for Teens","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Graphic Social Topics","score":0.7832,"slug":"graphic-social-topics"},{"label":"Graphic Biography","score":0.7816,"slug":"graphic-biography"},{"label":"Parents","score":0.78,"slug":"parents"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in graphic memoirs about family addiction and childhood","Readers drawn to memoirs about art as a way to cope with family hardship"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Tyler Page"],"book_id":"9781250758330","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250758330.jpg?v=d6af43861f9d797a","score":0.7079,"title":"Button Pusher","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250758330"},{"authors":["Tony Weaver, Jr."],"book_id":"9781250772879","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250772879.jpg?v=85ec5d61fed36603","score":0.6989,"title":"Weirdo","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250772879"},{"authors":["Corey Egbert"],"book_id":"9780374308391","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780374308391.jpg?v=6d7e09a8d8f0f89a","score":0.6918,"title":"Visitations","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780374308391"},{"authors":["Jay Jay Patton","Antoine Patton","Kiara Valdez"],"book_id":"9781546109952","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781546109952.jpg?v=54ebacc038dbdfd1","score":0.6905,"title":"Dear Dad: Growing Up With a Parent in Prison -- and How We Stayed Connected","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781546109952"},{"authors":["Norm Feuti"],"book_id":"9780063354104","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063354104.jpg?v=4923add756c304c6","score":0.6882,"title":"A Kid Like Me","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063354104"},{"authors":["Eugene Yelchin"],"book_id":"9781536215533","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781536215533.jpg?v=705e28d665c956a1","score":0.6876,"title":"I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: a Graphic Memoir","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781536215533"},{"authors":["Jarad Greene"],"book_id":"9780063032859","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063032859.jpg?v=f7e248ad04698f2a","score":0.6854,"title":"A-okay","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063032859"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:graphic memoir"],"label":"Graphic","score":0.1371,"slug":"graphic"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:graphic novel"],"label":"Novel","score":0.0614,"slug":"novel"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:graphic memoir"],"label":"Memoir","score":0.0385,"slug":"memoir"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Family addiction, Absent parents, Art as survival.","Themes: Graphic, Memoir.","Reading lane: Graphic Social Topics and Graphic Biography."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.94,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in graphic memoirs about family addiction and childhood","Readers drawn to memoirs about art as a way to cope with family hardship"],"themes":["Family addiction","Absent parents","Art as survival"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":1536,"goodreads_ratings_count":35386,"goodreads_reviews_count":4016,"quality_score":1}}