Okay Girl
$20.08
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2027
Summary
A YA coming-of age about an intense high school year where one girl stops pretending everything is always fine
Skye has survived a lot – but a humiliating, very-public prom disaster plastered across social media might just be her breaking point. When she’s assigned a class project on Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, what begins as homework becomes a mirror, a lifeline, and the start of a journey into self-discovery and young love.
Okay Girl is th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529500646 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529500648 |
| Author: | Kelis Rowe |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Critics Review
For all the girls who’ve claimed they were okay when they really weren’t. Rowe writes with precision and resonance about grief, dissociation, and loneliness. She embraces the interiority of girls’ lives with radical respect. – Cynthia Leitich Smith * winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature *
A tender-hearted, honest portrayal of finding love and light in times of grief and confusion, Okay Girl is not to be missed. – Jason June * New York Times bestselling author of Out of the Blue *
Kelis Rowe
Kelis Rowe is an author and stay-at-home mom who writes sweeping, classic teen romance novels from the points of view of brooding Black girls who are stronger than they know and the sensitive Black boys who just want to love them.
Her debut novel, Finding Jupiter, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2023, a Michigan State Book List selection, and the 2023–2024 winner of the Keystone to Reading Pennsylvania State Book Award.
Kelis writes out of her home near Austin, Texas.
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