You go first
Readers rate it 4.0 (6 on Hardcover)
288 pages · Released 2018 · Greenwillow Books
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You Go First is a thoughtful, character-driven middle-grade novel about two young friends navigating real challenges—divorce, bullying, and health anxiety—through an online Scrabble connection. The book handles difficult topics with sensitivity and age-appropriateness, emphasizing kindness, honesty, and friendship as sources of strength. Readers will find authentic emotional resonance without graphic content or inappropriate material.
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Twelve-year-old Charlotte Lockard and eleven-year-old Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. Over the course of a week, Charlotte and Ben online friends connected only by a Scrabble game will intersect in unexpected ways as they struggle to navigate the turmoil of middle school. Twelve-year-old Charlotte Lockard and eleven-year-old Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. Over the course of a week, Charlotte and Ben online friends connected only by a Scrabble game will intersect in unexpected ways as they struggle to navigate the turmoil of middle school.
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- Heart
- Middle schools
- Divorce
- Juvenile fiction
- Bullying
- Schools
- Surgery
- Scrabble (Game)
- Friendship
- Children's fiction
- Schools, fiction
- Friendship, fiction
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ISBN 9780062414182 · Greenwillow Books