Summary
I thought I was nobody’s teen crush, but turns out I was just missing the signs.
Zoe Kelly is starting a new phase of her life. High school was a mess of bullying and autistic masking that left her burnt out and shut down. Now, with an internship at an online media company—the first step on the road to her dream writing career—she is ready to reinvent herself. But she didn’t count on returning to her awkward and all-too-recent high-school experiences for her first writing ass…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922458018 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922458015 |
| Author: | Kay Kerr |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 197mm x 130mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Critics Review
‘Essential reading.’
Neurodiverse teenager Zoe is undertaking an internship at an online media company when her first assignment, about the struggles of navigating the online dating scene as an autistic person, goes viral. Even more surprising is the number of comments from former friends and acquaintances who claim to have had a crush on her at school. Zoe realises that she has missed any kind of sign that people were interested in her and so decides to try her hand at finding out why. What she doesn’t count on is facing her former school bully, or her best friend’s brother admitting his crush. As Zoe attempts to make sense of dating and love, she must also face the expectations of the corporate world and the everyday misrepresentation of disabled people by the media. Kay Kerr burst onto the YA scene with her 2020 debut Please Don’t Hug Me, and Social Queue confirms her as an important voice in the representation of the neurodiverse experience-as well as a skilled writer of young adult fiction. In Zoe, Kerr has created a character who gives genuine insight into the challenges of being autistic and engaging in social situations designed for the neurotypical, while also being very sweet and entertaining. Zoe challenges perceptions of disabled people and uses her voice to highlight ableism in the media. At its heart, however, the novel is a story of a teenager traversing rites of passage faced by all young adults: the awkwardness of first relationships and leaving high school behind in order to reinvent yourself. Social Queue is a very enjoyable read for fans of Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal. *Erin Wamala has previously worked in publishing and is currently both a practising teacher librarian and the owner of The Kids’ Bookshop. *
About The Author
Kay Kerr
Kay Kerr is a former journalist and community newspaper editor from Brisbane, now living on the Sunshine Coast with her husband and daughter and working as a freelance writer. Kay was writing Please Don’t Hug Me, her debut novel, when she received her own autism-spectrum diagnosis.
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