Can a guarded gamer girl lower her shield for a new friend... or more-than-friend?"EARNEST AND LAUGH-OUT-LOUD... PITCH PERFECT."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThirteen-year-old Ingrid's been...
Can a guarded gamer girl lower her shield for a new friend... or more-than-friend?"EARNEST AND LAUGH-OUT-LOUD... PITCH PERFECT."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThirteen-year-old Ingrid's been...
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Can a guarded gamer girl lower her shield for a new friend... or more-than-friend? "EARNEST AND LAUGH-OUT-LOUD... PITCH PERFECT."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Thirteen-year-old Ingrid's been living a double life. At school, she's her popular friend Rachel's charity case. Online, she crushes it in her favorite MMORPG, geeks out in her favorite fantasy fandom, and runs a popular social media account. If only real life were that easy. But when Ingrid finally stands up to Rachel, it suddenly feels like she has no life at all. Until she gets a super-sweet wrong-number text from a mystery boy at her school. Spending time together gaming as "Stitches" and "Traveler" makes her feel like she's really connecting with someone. But when she begins to suspect that Traveler may be a popular classmate who is WAY above her in the cool-kid food chain—and whose original text was actually intended for Rachel—she faces a difficult choice. Can they be friends IRL? She wants to open up, but getting close to people has hurt her before. Is making real friends only fantasy after all? Bye Forever, I Guess is the fresh, funny, and deeply sweet middle-grade debut of New York Times bestselling author Jodi Meadows (MY LADY JANE). Speaking to the messiness of middle-school friendships (and first loves), this is a warm, witty, enormously entertaining book—and a love letter to geek culture, gaming, and the healing power of fantasy. "HILARIOUS... Charming, funny, and endearing."—Kirkus Reviews "The most DELIGHTFUL middle-grade romcom I've ever read!"—Ellen Oh, award-winning author of Finding Junie Kim A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Best Book of the Year
A Bookshop.org Best Book of the Year
An American Booksellers Association Indie Next Selection
A Staff Pick at Parnussas Books, Bookmarks, Belmont Books, Broadway Books, and Many More
About the Author-
Jodi Meadows is the author of Nightrender, Dawnbreaker, the Incarnate and Fallen Isles trilogies, and is a coauthor of New York Times bestsellers My Lady Jane and My Plain Jane. You can visit her website at JodiMeadows.com, and connect with her on Twitter @jodimeadows and on Instagram @unicornwarlord. She lives in rural Virginia.
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Starred review from July 22, 2024 As the best friend of popular, self-absorbed Rachel, Ingrid is used to feeling invisible. But the guarded Virginia eighth grader has a vibrant online life, where she’s built a supportive community via the MMORPG Ancient Tomes Online and her secret blog Bye Forever, I Guess, a compilation of the wrong-number texts she frequently receives. After Rachel humiliates Ingrid in front of new kids Oliver and Alyx, Ingrid decides she’s had enough and drops her. She retreats further into her online life by getting to know Traveler, the anonymous sender of a recent misdirected text. In contrast to her increasingly awkward interactions with Oliver, who has a “strange ability to notice me,” Ingrid and Traveler have an easy, sweet rapport as they chat and play ATO—until she starts suspecting that he may be closer than she thought. Even worse, his initial text may have been meant for Rachel. Interspersing Ingrid’s delightfully snarky narration with chat transcriptions, Meadows (the Salvation Cycle) presents an earnest and laugh-out-loud middle grade debut that’s both a winning exploration of tween friendship and a pitch-perfect paean to fan culture and the thrill of finding one’s community. Main characters default to white. Ages 10–14. Agent: Lauren MacLeod, Aevitas Creative.
September 1, 2024 Thirteen-year-old Ingrid never wanted to be anything but invisible. In person, Ingrid Ant is shy, introverted, and content to let her real-life best friend, Rachel Allan, have the spotlight. But online, her Scrollr page "Bye Forever, I Guess" is ridiculously popular. Known as Anony Mouse on Scrollr, Ingrid maintains her anonymity and keeps her popularity under wraps while sharing the hilarious wrong number texts she receives. Ingrid's life is a careful balance of school, a largely nonexistent social life, posting to Scrollr, and playing her favorite MMORPG, Ancient Tomes Online, with her online best friend, Lorren Watson, who lives in Michigan, far from Ingrid in Virginia; the two have never met in person. When a new family moves to town, Ingrid's awkwardness causes a rift with her friend group. Lonely and isolated, Ingrid finds that a new wrong number text blossoms into a desperately needed friendship. This mysterious texter--known only by his ATO username, Traveler--gives her a chance to not only make a new friend, but to find her way forward after being isolated by her peers. And who knows--maybe this chance wrong-number encounter will turn into something beyond friendship. This online-savvy tale of friendship uses text message chains to add a digital dimension that perfectly matches Ingrid's life. Ingrid's experiences with navigating middle school, friendships, and the online world provide important lessons about online safety and boundary setting in relationships. Characters largely present white. Charming, funny, and endearing.(Fiction. 10-14)
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Starred review from October 1, 2024 Grades 5-8 *Starred Review* Insecure middle-school student Ingrid is a gamer girl who just happens to have an extremely popular (but anonymous) Scrollr account, called Bye Forever, I Guess, on which she posts text conversations she's carried out with wrong numbers. Only her best friend (Rachel), her online friend, and her grandmother know the truth about it--that is, until Rachel betrays her. Meanwhile, Ingrid's favorite author is coming to town, and she and the mystery boy she's been texting decide to finally meet at the bookstore for the event. Meadows, one of the creative forces behind the YA Lady Janies series, proves a dab hand at writing for middle-grade readers, harnessing the drama of shifting friendships and popularity hierarchies, embracing nerd culture, and injecting everything with the perfect amount of awkward. Yes, parts of the book seem entirely too convenient, but it's such a fun read that no one will care. A hilarious enemies-to-something-more tale, told equally in prose and text messages, this book is sure to please any middle schooler in need of a sweet romance. Hand to fans of Cory Doctorow's In Real Life (2014) and Alexis Nedd's Don't Hate the Player (2021).
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