Not Like Other Girls

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma, girlhood, and what we deserve.

Powerful, brilliantly plotted, voicey, gripping, beautiful, heart-wrenching, hilarious . . . Read this book. Liz Lawson,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Agathas

When Jo-Lynn Kirby s former best friendpretty, nice Maddie Pricecomes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it’s some kind of joke. After all, Jo has been an outcast ever since her nude photos were leakedand since everyone decided she deserved it. Theres no way Maddie wouldactuallycome to her for help.

But then Maddie is gone.

Everyone is quick to write off Maddie as a runaway, but Jo cant shake the feeling there’s more to the story. To find out the truth, Jo needs to get back in with the people who left her behindand the only way back in is through Hudson Harper-Moore. An old fling of Jos with his own reasons for wanting to find Maddie, Hudson hatches a fake dating scheme to get Jo back into their clique. But being back on the inside means Jo must confront everything shed rather forget: the boys who betrayed her, the whispers that she had it coming, and the secrets that tore her and Maddie apart. As Jo digs deeper into Maddies disappearance, shes left to wonder who shes really searching for: Maddie, or the girl she used to be.

Not Like Other Girlsis a stunning debut that takes a hard look at how we treat young women and their trauma, through the lens of a missing girl and a girl trying to find herself again.