All seventeen year-old
Grace Glasser wants is her own life. A normal life in which she sleeps
in the same bed for longer than three months and doesn't have to
scrounge for spare change to make sure the electric bill is paid.
Emotionally trapped by her unreliable mother, Maggie, and the tiny cape
on which she lives, she focuses on her best friend, her upcoming
audition for a top music school in New York, and surviving Maggie’s
latest boyfriend—who happens to be Grace’s own ex-boyfriend’s father.
Her
attempts to lay low until she graduates are disrupted when she meets
Eva, a girl with her own share of ghosts she’s trying to outrun.
Grief-stricken and lonely, Eva pulls Grace into midnight adventures and
feelings Grace never planned on. When Eva tells Grace she likes girls,
both of their worlds open up. But, united by loss, Eva also shares a
connection with Maggie. As Grace's mother spirals downward, both girls
must figure out how to love and how to move on.
Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.
When
it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t
always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only
child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged.
She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though
her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell
her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon.
So Leah really
doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to
fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon,
tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note
while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she
might love one of them more than she ever intended.
Three friends, two
love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek
culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be
yourself.
Charlie likes to stand out. She’s a vlogger and
actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to
show fans she’s over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. When
internet-famous cool-girl actress Alyssa Huntington arrives as a
surprise guest, it seems Charlie’s long-time crush on her isn’t as
one-sided as she thought.
Taylor likes to blend in. Her brain is
wired differently, making her fear change. And there’s one thing in her
life she knows will never change: her friendship with her best guy
friend Jamie—no matter how much she may secretly want it to. But when
she hears about a fan contest for her favorite fandom, she starts to
rethink her rules on playing it safe.
Queens of Geek by
Jen Wilde, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult
imprint Swoon Reads, is an empowering novel for anyone who has ever felt
that fandom is family.
