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367 pp.
| Penguin/Kokila |
September, 2019 |
TradeISBN 978-0-425-29043-9$16.99
(1)
4-6
Artistic Lane DiSanti, bird-lover Cat Garcia, cooking whiz Aster Douglas, and aspiring journalist Ofelia Castillo forge a friendship united by a common cause: stopping the girls' club from bestowing its ceremonial feathered hat at the annual Miss Floras contest (Cat calls it "bird murder"). Pérez's (The First Rule of Punk) alternating third-person narrative evokes the small-town Florida setting vividly. For preteens discovering that friendships can be complicated, and that the world is more so.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2019