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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2017 | Xpress Reviews Web Only
Gr 9 Up—This well-done romance offers up a chivalrously complex Southern boy and a transplanted heroine who accepts the mantle of reluctant social activist. Agnes Murphy-Pujols is a take-no-prisoners refugee from heartbreak and Brooklyn. Her mother, a professor, uproots the two of them just a few months from the end of Agnes's senior year and deposits them in a small town outside of Savannah, Georgia. On the one hand, Agnes is angry with her mother for causing the implosion of the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2018
Preppy, biracial New Yorker Agnes ("Nes") lands in rural Georgia for the end of high school. The stark contrast between th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
