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OLLIE IN BETWEEN<\/h3>\n

\n April 2025,\n Feiwel & Friends\/Macmillan,\n 256 pp <\/p>\n\n

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As endearing as it is humorous, this debut middle grade novel by Jess Callans is a tender, queer coming of age story about the courage it takes to find your own voice and choosing to just\u00a0be<\/em><\/strong>.
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\r\nPuberty, AKA the ultimate biological predator, is driving a wedge between soon-to-be 13 year old Ollie Thompson and their lifelong friends. Too much of a girl for their neighborhood hockey team, but not girly enough for their boy-crazed BFF, Ollie doesn\u2019t know where they fit. And their usual ability to camouflage? Woefully disrupted.
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\r\nWhen a school project asks them to write an essay on what it means to be a woman (if anyone\u2019s got an answer, that\u2019d be great), and one of their new friends is the target of bullying, Ollie is caught between the safety of fleeing from their own differences or confronting the risks of fighting to take their own path forward.<\/p><\/div>\n\n \n\n

STARRED REVIEWS<\/p>

BOOKLIST<\/strong> – “Clear echoes of Judy Blume…As Ollie puts it, ‘Being yourself can hurt,’ but awkward and self-aware stories like Ollie\u2019s can help more tweens ‘just be.'”<\/p>\n

SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL<\/strong> – “A vital read that celebrates the power of true authenticity, this is a must-buy for middle school collections.”<\/p>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n

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