Writer and artist Schrag opens her heart and examines it with a magnifying glass to reveal the emotional turbulence pain and passion of teenage life. Potential reveals Ariel s junior year of high school as well as her artistic maturation. For mature readers. Ariel Schrag continues her tumultuous passage through high school in the second book of her acclaimed series of frank insightful and painfully honest autobiographical graphic novels. Written during the summer following her junior year at Berkeley High School in California Potential recounts Ariel s first real relationship and first-time love with a girl her quest to lose her virginity to a boy and her parents divorce -- as well as the personal and social complications of writing about her life as she lives it. Along the way she hangs out with her favorite teacher obsesses over clothes gets drunk smokes pot and tries to connect the biology she reads about in textbooks with the biology she s living.