"Entertaining and compassionate, with a strong narrative voice, this will be a reassuring tonic to tweenagers who are confused about who they really like."
Inclusive and radiant with authentic emotions, Maggie Horne’s Noah Frye Gets Crushed is spot-on in its portrayal of friendship and trying to figure out who you are and who you like as it evokes all the uncertainties around first crushes.
Self-professed science camp nerd Noah has decided to keep her confusing feelings secret from her best friends Luna and Zoey. But when Zoey insists, “You can’t hide your secret love forever,” Noah feels compelled to declare she’s into Archie from school. What she really wants to tell them is that she made friends with an amazing girl called Jessa at science camp, and her biggest hope is that “my camp best friend and my real-life best friends could all meet and become one super-mega best friend. The dream”.
At things turn out, Jessa does join their group, but while Noah gets close to Archie, her emotions are thrown into turmoil when she realises her feelings for Jessa might be more than friendship.
Gripping and true-to-life as it follows Noah’s courageous journey to understanding her feelings and navigating her way to knowing who she is and who she likes, Noah Frye Gets Crushed is super-cute and super-joyous.
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