HAZEL HILL IS GONNA WIN THIS ONE

A funny, feminist, and queer contemporary middle grade debut about 12-year-old loner Hazel Hill, who after one of her classmates is harassed online, devises a plan to catch the school's golden boy in the act.

Hazel Hill is too busy for friends. No, really. She needs to focus on winning the school-wide speech competition and beating her nemesis, the popular and smart Ella Quinn, after last year's embarrassing mishap that cost her first place. But when Hazel discovers Ella is being harassed by golden boy Tyler Harris, she has to choose between winning and doing the right thing. No one would believe that a nice boy like Tyler would harass and intimidate a nice girl like Ella, but Hazel knows the truth - and she's determined to prove it, even if it means risking everything. Deeply relatable and surprisingly humorous, Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One is a wonderfully empowering story about friendship, finding your voice, and standing up for what you believe in. Maggie Horne is a writer and editor who grew up near Toronto, Canada. She studied at Ox- ford Brookes University, where she obtained both a BA in Publishing Media and a wife, which was a pretty good deal. She's now a writer and editor living outside of Ottawa with her family. Her writing has been featured in Catapult and on Medium's Mental Health and LGBTQ pages. Hazel Hill is Gonna Win This One is her first novel.