She left all her old friends, human and squirrel, back in L.A. Doreen used to see She-Hulk while she lived in Los Angeles, and now she’s looking forward to seeing Thor and the other Avengers who live in nearby New York City.ĭoreen is hiding her tail in her pants because a 9 th-grader with a bushy tail would look kind of freaky*. No reason is given for her having a squirrel’s tail, but Hey! this is the Marvel Universe. She had to gnaw on things to keep them from getting even longer.

Otherwise she looks like any young teenage girl, except that she’s super-strong and has retractable claws and “her two front teeth were a little longer than their neighbors. “Who runs the world? Squirrels!” Doreen may be prejudiced because she was born with a bushy squirrel’s tail. The comic book stories began in 1991 with her as a 21-year-old college student, but here 14-year-old Doreen Green has just moved with her parents from Southern California to Shady Oaks, New Jersey. This novel recounts the beginning of Squirrel Girl’s career, written in a breezy teenager’s diary style. New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale specializes in romantic novels for adolescent girls and young women, many in collaboration with her husband, Dean Hale. Marvel does not go in for animal heroes, so the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and her 300 squirrels are about the only ones who would qualify for interest to furry fans. The Marvel Comics Group is having hardcover novelizations written of most of its high-profile super-heroes such as Iron Man, for the 9-to-12 age group. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World, by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale. Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer

Unbeatable squirrel girl costume