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Published
2021
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Subgenre
Contemporary
Words
30,829
Section
Middle Grade

Reckless, Glorious, Girl

In the summer before seventh grade in small-town Kentucky, Beatrice Miller, raised by her mother and her unconventional grandmother Mamaw, is caught between childhood and adolescence. She wrestles with changing friendships, body worries and shame about being seen as a 'hillbilly.'

  • NCTE Notable Verse Novel 2022