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Title details for Rebels Like Us by Liz Reinhardt - Available

Rebels Like Us

by Liz Reinhardt
Sisi Aisha Johnson
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"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.

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    February 28, 2017

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781488202636
      • File size: 469269 KB
      • Duration: 16:17:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Sisi Aisha Johnson clearly contrasts first-person narrator Agnes (Nes), who is from Brooklyn, and secondary characters who reside in a small Southern town. Newly arrived Nes has an edgy Northern accent, which is sometimes colored with the Latina rhythms of her Dominican background. Johnson's portrayal of Nes suggests her emotional pain, which relates to her mother, who embroiled them in an unsavory scandal and then moved Nes to Georgia in the middle of her senior year. One can hear the bitterness that has sprung up between them in Johnson's narration. She contrasts these sharp edges with the soothing voice and gentle manner of Doyle Rahn, Nes's new crush. But the softness of Southern accents belies the racism and abuse that lie close to the surface of this story. S.W. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • School Library Journal

      March 1, 2017

      Gr 9 Up-This well-done romance offers up a chivalrously complex Southern boy and a transplanted heroine who accepts the mantle of reluctant social activist. Agnes Murphy-Pujols is a take-no-prisoners refugee from heartbreak and Brooklyn. Her mother, a professor, uproots the two of them just a few months from the end of Agnes's senior year and deposits them in a small town outside of Savannah, Georgia. On the one hand, Agnes is angry with her mother for causing the implosion of their life and family. On the other, she is glad to escape her inveterately cheating former boyfriend. The teen is a standout with her mother's Irish temper and her father's Dominican coloring, and Doyle Rahn's flirtatious attention within the first week at her new school moves her from a curiosity to a target of the school's best connected mean girl. The first half of the book is overfilled with "electric touches" and sexually frustrated banter. It is the second half that redeems the opening chapters. Doyle and Agnes defy tradition by organizing an alternative to the segregated proms sponsored by members of the community and, concurrently, struggle to find balance in a relationship that moves beyond physical to intimate. VERDICT Fans of teen romance will find a thought-provoking and nuanced story that transcends its initial dosage of cliched descriptions of lustful longing. A must-have for YA romance shelves.-Jodeana Kruse, R. A. Long High School, Longview, WA

      Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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