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Books by Rachel Vail

Well, That Was Awkward

Gracie has a crush on A.J., but when she finds out that A.J. likes her best friend Sienna, she decides that the two are perfectly suited and her role as sidekick will be to help Sienna write clever texts that will dazzle A.J. To her surprise, A.J.'s texts prove to be surprisingly smart and witty. Could it be that he is getting help from his brainy best friend Emmett? There's many a twist and turn before the real perfect couple get together!

Set in the tumultuous world of eighth grade, Rachel Vail's delightful take on Cyrano de Bergerac is laugh-out-loud funny, but also perceptive and touching.

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Unfriended

UNFRIENDED follows a group of 8th graders through the upheavals of social life in the hyper-connected present day reality of a middle class middle school. Natasha invites Truly to join the Popular Table, but she soon regrets doing so when Truly displaces her in the attention of adorable Clay, and even worse, of Brooke, the ultracool arbiter of who stays and who is unfriended. Natasha is soon unfriended, and vows revenge. Told in alternating voices, the tone is funny and light, as the reader moves from one unreliable narrator to the next, each one having only a limited perspective. Ultimately, only the reader knows what's really happening.

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