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    Unfriended

    Written by Rachel Vail

    Narrated by Corey Allen, Ramon de Ocampo, Nora Hunter and Cassandra Morris

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    About this audiobook

    In middle school, nothing is more important than friendship.
     
    When Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table with the group she has dreamed of joining, she can hardly believe her luck. Everyone seems so nice, so kind to one another. But all is not as it seems with her new friends, and soon she’s caught in a maelstrom of lies, misunderstandings, accusations, and counter-accusations, all happening very publicly in the relentless, hyperconnected social media world from which there is no escape.
     
    Six eighth-graders, four girls and two boys, struggle to understand and process their fractured glimpses into one another’s lives as they find new ways to disconnect, but also to connect, in Rachel Vail’s richest and most searching book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateSep 25, 2014
    ISBN9780698175860
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    Rachel Vail

    Rachel Vail is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novels If We Kiss and Lucky, Gorgeous, and Brilliant (the Avery sisters trilogy) and more than a dozen other novels for young teens, including the Friendship Ring series. She has also written many beloved picture books, including Piggy Bunny and Sometimes I'm Bombaloo, and two hit novels for elementary school kids, Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters and Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom. The author lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.

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    • 3/5
      2.5***

      With friends like these, who needs enemies?

      Gabriele “Truly” Gonzalez is a smart eighth-grader who is liked by most everyone. But when she’s invited to join THE Popular kids’ table, she unthinkingly leaves her best friend behind. And the drama begins.

      I found this in the YA section but it’s more middle-school than young adult, in my opinion. Vail gives each of the central kids a voice, changing narrators from chapter to chapter. Some are told as a series of text messages. All are told in first person, and I occasionally lost track of which kid was narrating: Natasha? Brooke? Jack? Clay?

      Being a middle-school drama there’s the expected “mean girl” behavior and cyber bullying. But I was surprised by how one of the Moms gets involved in this cyber bullying.

      I did really like Truly, her mom, and her friend Jack. (I’d love to read a novel centered on him.) But I thought it took far too long to get to a positive message. Just not my cup of tea at all, though I could see why tweens might like it.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book, no slowing down in this book!