I nominate this book for best female and nonbinary characters, positive portrayals of women (and librarians), and overall bad a** nature of what women can do! This book did take me a little longer to finish (silly IG kept distracting me), but that in no way means I didn't love this book. The story follows our two main characters Raina and Millie; both of whom just experienced major heart break. Raina just got dumped by her boyfriend of five years, and has lost interest in nearly all things. Millie was just dumped by her entire Mock Trial team, even though she did all of the work. This all of course happening spring semester of their senior years. Very unfortunate. One thing they realize quickly is that angry girls can get stuff DONE! Millie decides to create a rival all girls Mock Trial team, which she enlists Raina (major drama nerd) to help create. Fueled by all of the wrong doings and problems in the patriarchy- they make a winning team. One of my favorite characters (I am biased) is Ms. McClain the school librarian turned Mock trial sponsor who helps out along the way. The girls realize very quickly that the librarian knows all things and is a force to be reckoned with. I have bookmarked quite a few quotes about the library/librarian from this book so that I can use them all when this book is published. I believe that a large amount of my school would read this book- we have a large speech and debate team, and other activities that are similar to Mock Trial. The positive themes that run throughout make it a feel good book- knowing that even if we don't win the battle, we can win the war. Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner - comes out on August 18th, just in time for school to start! I will definitely consider adding this to our school library- positive, activism, camp, puns, knitting, libraries- what else could you ask for?
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