Will I love Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One?

This is a middle-grade book about a seventh grader trying to prove her golden boy classmate is not as great as he seems. My kid says that it “hits the balance of being funny and teaching actual important lessons. The main character is easy to root for. She’s just good.”

She laughed out loud while reading it and wanted to find out if the author had written any more books.

Hazel Hill thinks she’s the only girl in the 7th grade who likes girls that way, until Tyler tells her that Ella Quinn told him she likes Hazel.

But Ella Quinn is pretty and popular, and she’s Hazel’s biggest rival in the upcoming speech contest. They talk. Ella confesses she only told Tyler that to stop his sexual harassment. It turns out, Tyler has been harassing a lot of girls.

They tell the school, but the teachers won’t do anything about it, even blaming the girls and punishing them. It is not a coincidence that Tyler’s mom is the… show more.