Bøker av Brigit Young

Sheltered small-town teen, Rose, forms an underground book club for banned books with Talia, an outspoken new kid from New York City.

"Real, relatable, and fully dimensional, Marianne is a main character you will root for with all your heart." -Dan Gemeinhart, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight ChildrenIn this poignant middle grade novel, a struggling student joins her school's celebrated quiz team in a bid to avoid failing eighth grade. Marianne Blume has always known she's not smart.After years of trying and trying at school, she's mastered the art of getting by on a combination of luck, deflection, and her winning personality-that is, until she lands in the classroom of Mr. Garcia. Suddenly she's at risk of flunking his class, repeating the eighth grade, and getting left behind by her best friend, Skyla. To receive much-needed extra credit and get into high school, Marianne makes the desperate decision to join her school's Quiz Quest team, only to find out that her teammates have problems of their own-and that they need to win for her to get the credit.Now Marianne will need to try-like, actually try-for the first time in her life, while also helping her teammates pull it together. Can Marianne learn to be smart? What does it mean to be "bright," anyway? And will she be left in eighth grade forever?Brigit Young (The Prettiest) has written an empowering story about bucking labels, overcoming preconceptions, and learning to hold your head-and hand-up high.

Whether it's earrings, homework, or love notes, Tillie "Lost and Found" Green and her camera can find any lost thing-until a search for a missing person forces her to step out from behind the lens in Brigit Young's middle-grade debut novel, Worth a Thousand Words.Ever since a car accident left Tillie Green with lasting painful injuries, she's hidden behind her camera. She watches her family and classmates through the lens, tracking down misplaced items and spotting the small details that tell a much bigger story than people usually see. But she isn't prepared for class clown Jake Hausmann's request: to find his father.In a matter of days, Tillie goes from silent observer to one half of a detective duo, searching for clues to the mystery of Jake's dad's disappearance. When the truth isn't what Jake wants it to be, and the photographs start exposing people's secrets, Tillie has to decide what-and who-is truly important to her.A Junior Library Guild Selection