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Jeffrey Canino.

Writer · United States

Jeffrey Canino: American author of the Besties graphic-novel series — middle-school friendship comics set in Kayla Miller's Click universe, for ages 8–12.

Jeffrey Canino is an American author known to children's-book readers as the writer of the Besties middle-grade graphic-novel series, Find Their Groove, Set Sail, Work It Out, Prank War, Crush It!, set in the same fictional universe as Kayla Miller's Click books and centring on a different friendship cluster of preteen girls navigating school, friendship and figuring out who they want to be. Canino's voice is observant, kind and well-tuned to the everyday social tectonics of middle school. The Besties books work as a strong companion shelf for Click readers and for the wider Telgemeier / Knisley contemporary middle-grade graphic-novel tradition. Strong appeal for ages 8–12.