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Kind of Sort of Fine
By (Author) Spencer Hall
Simon & Schuster
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
3rd November 2022
Reprint
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
288
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 20mm
234g
Senior year changes everything for two teens in this poignant, funny coming-of-age story that looks at what happens when the image everyone has of us no longer matches who we really are.
Senior year of high school is full of changes.
For Hayley Mills, these changes arent exactly welcome. All she wants is for everyone to forget about her very public breakdown and remember her as the overachiever she once wasand who shes determined to be again. But its difficult to be seen as a go-getter when shes forced into TV Production class with all the slackers like Lewis Holbrook.
For Lewis, though, this is going to be his year. After a summer spent binging 80s movies, hes ready to upgrade from the role of self-described fat, funny sidekick to leading man of his own lifeincluding getting the girl. The only thing standing in his way is, well, himself.
When the two are partnered up in class, neither is particularly thrilled. But then they start making mini documentaries about their classmates hidden talents, and suddenly Hayley is getting attention for something other than her breakdown, and Lewis isnt just a background character anymore. It seems like theyre both finally getting what they wantexcept what happens when who youve become isnt who you really are
Spencer Hall graduated from the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky in with a BS in English. He moved to Chicago to study improv, but soon realized when it came to being funny, he was better at writing things down than making them up on the spot. When hes not writing, he can be found running by the lake, occasionally performing stand-up comedy at poorly attended open mic nights, and researching howto become a professional mini-golf player.Kind of Sort of Fineis his first novel.