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Pretty Furious
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  • Published: 22 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781984816153
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99

Pretty Furious

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Paperback
22 July 2025
EBook
16 Apr 2024
Audiobook
16 Apr 2024
Hardback
14 May 2024
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#1 NYT Bestseller E. K. Johnston returns to contemporary feminist YA. This thrilling story of a small town, fierce friendships, and revenge served cold is a perfect companion to Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Now in paperback!

#1 New York Times bestseller E.K. Johnston returns with a contemporary feminist young adult novel about a small town, fierce friendships, and revenge served cold.

You will never suspect us,
But you’ll always wonder how we did it
. . . and why.

In the small town of Eganston, Ontario, five good girls have had enough. Having faced the best and the worst of their tight-knit community, Maddie Carter and her friends are tired of the unfair societal expectations placed upon them. When a scandal involving a local girl sparks outrage, Maddie and her friends decide it’s time to take matters—and justice—into their own hands. Together, they’ve decided that it’s time for a reckoning and that justice is their privilege to give.

Join these five young women whose struggles offer a powerful glimpse into the emotional and social challenges of adolescence.
  • Published: 22 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781984816153
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

E.K. Johnston

E.K. JOHNSTON is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several YA novels, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist The Story of Owen and Star Wars: Ahsoka. Her novel A Thousand Nights was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. The New York Times called The Story of Owen "a clever first step in the career of a novelist who, like her troubadour heroine, has many more songs to sing" and in its review of Exit, Pursued by a Bear, the Globe & Mail called Johnston "the Meryl Streep of YA," with "limitless range." E.K. Johnston lives in southwestern Ontario.
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Praise for Pretty Furious

“Johnston is at her best sinking her pen into the guts and glory of girlhood and Pretty Furious is Johnston at her truth-telling best. A novel about the painful intricacies of small-town life, the hurt of growing up and seeing the hypocrisy in others, and the power of female friendship.” —Tess Sharpe, author of The Girls I've Been

"Short and to the point, the story packs a punch with direct prose and strong-willed characters. Add this issue-driven contemporary novel to teen collections for readers who enjoy revenge plots and books like Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian’s Burn for Burn (2012)." —Booklist