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Crushing It
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| Author | Erin Becker |
|---|---|
| Genre | Middle Grade – Contemporary |
| Release Date | August 6, 2024 |
| Publisher | Penguin Workshop |
Description
From debut author Erin Becker comes an action-packed but tender novel about first romance, queer identity, and learning how to be brave when it matters the most.
On the soccer field, Magic Mel is in her element. She’s ready to lead her team to victory at the city championship in her new role as captain. Off the field, however, is a totally different story. Mel can’t get a handle on her class presentation, her friend group has completely dissolved, and her ex-friend-current-teammate, Tory, is being the worst. The only place she feels like herself is in her text conversations where she shares her secret poetry with BTtoYouPlease.
Tory McNally, on the other hand, is keeping everything together, thank you very much. So what if her mom is more preoccupied with her craft projects and new husband than her, or that she’s down to one IRL friend because of annoying, overly peppy “Magic” Mel? She’s perfectly fine, and even when she maybe isn’t, she’s got NotEmilyD to text with.
As the championships loom closer, everything around Mel and Tory starts to get more and more complicated: the dynamics on the field, the rift between their friend group, and, as they connect anonymously online, maybe even their feelings for each other . . .
About the Author
Erin Becker is an author and marketer living in Washington, DC. She grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, studied English and creative writing as a Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, and holds her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Erin writes fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism, and her work has been published in Ms. Magazine, Lambda Literary, and Barrelhouse Reviews. Her debut novel, Crushing It, will be published by Penguin Young Readers in August 2024.
Erin also works as a marketer for start-ups and enterprises, and her career has an author has helped inform her approach to this work. No matter what she’s creating, her approach is: be real, and don’t be boring.
Before moving to Washington, DC, Erin lived in Chile for several years, where she spent a lot of time hiking in the Andes and picked up way too much Chilean slang. She also worked as a teacher and a Spanish-to-English translator.
When Erin’s not writing, you can find her at the gym, or occasionally playing soccer (though not nearly as well as the protagonists of her debut novel).
