Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One

Name: Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Maggie Horne
ISBN: 9780063269873

Author: Maggie Horne

Narrator: Tara Sands

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 10/18/2022

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Lifestyles, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A “must-read for tweens and their parents"" (SLJ, starred review), this funny, feminist, and queer contemporary middle grade debut follows 12-year-old loner Hazel Hill, who after one of her classmates is harassed online, devises a plan to catch the school's golden boy in the act. Seventh grader Hazel Hill is too busy for friends. No, really. She needs to focus on winning the school-wide speech competition and beating her nemesis, the popular and smart Ella Quinn, after last year’s embarrassing hyperbole/hyperbowl mishap that cost her first place.But when Hazel discovers Ella is being harassed by golden boy Tyler Harris, she has to choose between winning and doing the right thing. No one would believe that a nice boy like Tyler would harass and intimidate a nice girl like Ella, but Hazel knows the truth—and she’s determined to prove it, even if it means risking everything. Deeply relatable and surprisingly humorous, Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One is a wonderfully empowering story about friendship, finding your voice, and standing up for what you believe in.

About Maggie Horne

Maggie Horne is a writer who grew up near Toronto, Canada. She now lives in the UK with her wife, where they keep a collection of dogs and children. She is the author of books for middle grade and young adult readers. Her first novel, Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One, was a 2023 LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts (NCTE) nominee.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on October 05, 2022

Thanks so much to Firefly Press for my ARC! I’ve been so excited for this book for so long that when I finally had it in my hands I was hit with this Really Big Fear that I somehow wouldn’t love it as much as I loved it in my head. And then I read it and I loved it even more than I thought I might, a......more

Goodreads review by emma on September 22, 2022

the easiest five stars i have ever given and the easiest recommendation i will ever give. this is a book for young girls. for girls to feel empowered, for girls to feel understood, for girls to be believed, for girls to feel safe. it is also a book for women. for women who as girls were not believed,......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on August 26, 2022

Hey! I wrote this! I think it's great! I hope that you will too!! I wrote HAZEL based on my own experience as a 12-year-old, watching myself and my friends and basically every girl around me being sexually harassed in varying amounts by the boys we went to school with who teachers called Gifted and S......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on March 17, 2023

DNFed sixty percent just because I didn’t like any of the characters. They are so young but I feel they are being really pretentious from the ways they are thinking. They are really unlikeable how things are going and the plot? Well, I need a better one. I really do not like the tone of the main chi......more

Goodreads review by Anniek on August 28, 2022

Hazel Hill has stolen my heart and is without a doubt one of the best middlegrade main characters I've ever read about. This book is short but strong, with a really great voice that manages to keep the tone of the book light while discussing the heavy theme of sexual harrassment. Although when the t......more