Slingshot
Age 12 +
29 April 2021Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Synopsis
Acidly funny and compulsively readable, Mercedes Helnwein’s debut novel Slingshot is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, friendship, stupidity, sex, bad poetry, and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.
Grace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a...
Details
29 April 2021694 minutes
Jesse Vilinsky
9781529058208Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Reviews
All the terror and wonder of that first true love, masterfully detailed with true emotional rigor and blinding wit. My fifteen-year-old self wants to scream into a pillow with joy.David Yoon, New York Times bestselling author of, Frankly in Love
Glittering and irreverent, Helnwein has crafted an iconic character for the ages in sharp-tongued iconoclast, Gracie Welles. Beautiful prose, characters that breathe, and a voice so thick you could swim in it—I am fully here for this book.-, David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik and Mosquitoland
