Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s, Teenage & Educational

WELL, THAT WAS AWKWARD

Rachel Vail

Set in the tumultuous world of eighth grade, Rachel Vail's delightful take on Cyrano de Bergerac is laugh-out-loud funny, but also perceptive and touching.

In Well, That Was Awkward, Gracie has a crush on A.J., but when she finds out that A.J. likes her best friend Sienna, she decides that the two are perfectly suited and her role as sidekick will be to help Sienna write clever texts that will dazzle A.J.

To her surprise, A.J.'s texts prove to be surprisingly smart and witty. Could it be that he is getting help from his brainy best friend Emmett? There's many a twist and turn before the real perfect couple get together!

Focusing on the hyper-social world of the middle school fishbowl, Rachel Vail writes novels for today's tweens, her finger on the pulse of an actual eighth grade class.

Available products
Book Published 2017-02-28 by Viking Children's Books
Book Published 2017-02-28 by Viking Children's Books

Comments

No one does tween better than Rachel Vail. Her characters come alive on the page, make you worry, hope, laugh and cry along with them, right to the very satisfying last page. And it doesn’t hurt that the romance, though age appropriate, sizzles.

Vanity Fair (circ. 1.21 million) features WELL, THAT WAS AWKWARD by Rachel Vail in the “Hot Type” section of the March issue, on newsstands today! (March 1, 2017) Vanity Fair praises, “Rachel Vail’s Well, That Was Awkward screenshots the teen years.”

Vail captures the anguish and hilarity at the heart of middle school.

As per her usual blend of energy, wit, and genuine emotion, Vail has created a story that is at once delightfully gossipy, playfully ironic, and deeply moving.

A modern, multicultural version of Cyrano de Bergerac…Vail’s portrayals prevent the characters from being mere stereotypes…This tween romance proves that some stories stand the test of time, even with modernization.

Gracie is fabulously sarcastic and a little neurotic, her first-person narrative thoughts pinging and ponging across the pages…The sensitive subplot concerning Gracie's deceased older sister weaves in and out of the main plot, never overshadowing it but enhancing it with sincere emotion until the concluding chapters pull everything together. Hilarious and heartfelt.

Vail skillfully details the politics of middle school, mean girls, first dates, and best friends in this sensitive and funny coming-of-age story.

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Vail has created a fast-paced comedy characterizing a teen girl’s growing pains on the journey toward womanhood. Bring a tissue (or a pack), and enjoy.