A review by laurielou73
Serena Says by Tanita S. Davis

5.0

Reading this book was like traveling back in time and reliving all of those middle school highs and lows. Highs like making new friends and growing into your voice as a leader; lows like losing your best friend without really knowing what went wrong. Serena accurately narrates these ups and downs with the confusion and confidence of a typical middle-schooler. I appreciated her relationship with her family and with her classmates as she sees some of them with a new perspective, but most of all, the author doesn't work to resolve Serena's friendship with JC. Instead, she writes this relationship realistically - friendships change and evolve, and through it all Serena thrives and takes advantage of her time to shine.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC. Definitely one for the classroom library.