The next book in the series, Enemies, will be released in September 2022. Her characters are easy to identify with, and the way she tells stories always wows me. (It doesn’t last.) There’s an upcoming dance that adds to Jorge’s stress, some friend drama as Garrett makes poor choices in trying to become friends with a popular quarterback, James, and a terrible situation when everyone thinks Jorge made awful comments online (and won’t believe that someone hacked his account).Ĭhmakova’s books take me right back to all the middle school drama I remember and imagine.

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