Rebels Like Us, Liz Reinhardt
Rebels Like Us, Liz Reinhardt
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Rebels Like Us

Author: Liz Reinhardt

Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Unabridged: 16 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2017


Synopsis

"It's not like I never thought about being mixed race. I guess it was just that, in Brooklyn, everyone was competing to be unique or surprising. By comparison, I was boring, seriously. Really boring." 

Culture shock knocks city girl Agnes "Nes" Murphy-Pujols off-kilter when she's transplanted mid–senior year from Brooklyn to a small Southern town after her mother's relationship with a coworker self-destructs. On top of the move, Nes is nursing a broken heart and severe homesickness, so her plan is simple: keep her head down, graduate and get out. Too bad that flies out the window on day one, when she opens her smart mouth and pits herself against the school's reigning belle and the principal. 

Her rebellious streak attracts the attention of local golden boy Doyle Rahn, who teaches Nes the ropes at Ebenezer. As her friendship with Doyle sizzles into something more, Nes discovers the town she's learning to like has an insidious undercurrent of racism. The color of her skin was never something she thought about in Brooklyn, but after a frightening traffic stop on an isolated road, Nes starts to see signs everywhere—including at her own high school where, she learns, they hold proms. Two of them. One black, one white. 

Nes and Doyle band together with a ragtag team of classmates to plan an alternate prom. But when a lit cross is left burning in Nes's yard, the alterna-prommers realize that bucking tradition comes at a price. Maybe, though, that makes taking a stand more important than anything. 

About Liz Reinhardt

Liz Reinhardt was born and raised in the idyllic beauty of northwest NJ. A move to the subtropics of coastal Georgia with her daughter and husband left her with a newly realized taste for the beach and a bloated sunscreen budget. Right alongside these new loves is her old, steadfast affection and longing for bagels and the fast-talking foul mouths of her youth. She loves Raisinettes, even if they aren't really candy, the Oxford comma, movies that are hilarious or feature zombies, any and all books, but especially romance (the smarter and hotter, the better), the sound of her daughter's incessantly wise and entertaining chatter, and watching her husband work on cars in the driveway. You can read her blog at www.elizabethreinhardt.blogspot.com, like her on Facebook, or email her at lizreinhardtwrites@gmail.com.She is represented by Kevan Lyon of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Martha on January 05, 2017

I enjoyed Rebels Like Us a lot. It engages in some cliches -- instalove, opposites improbably attracting, fairytale ending, etc -- but does so in a knowing, nuanced way, and populates them with engaging, individual characters who made the story come very effectively to life. In particular, Nes kicks......more

Goodreads review by Maya on June 02, 2017

The writing of this book, itself, was pretty good. The author was a pro at making you feel something about the characters; you were frustrated and angry and happy along with them. But the storyline, itself, was not all that great. Until about the 250-300th page, you weren't even aware of what the pr......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on October 15, 2018

This book had so much potential, but everything was done just so wrong. Full review to come......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on February 16, 2017

NYC teen Agnes Murphy-Pujols is in for the shock of a lifetime when she moves to middle-of-nowhere Georgia and finds out that her new community holds two segregated proms. Romantic sparks fly when Agnes meets popular Doyle Rahn, and eventually they, and their band of teen allies decide to organize a......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on July 09, 2017

I'm gonna make this quick and light..unlike the book! I was really looking forward to this book..it has so much promise with a great message about racism. You really don't realize it sometimes but unfortunately our country has along way to go in that department still. The wonderful message in this bo......more