Gracie has never felt like this before. One day, she suddenly can't breathe, can't walk, can't anything - and the reason is standing right there in front of her, all tall and weirdly good-looking: A. J.

But it turns out A. J. likes not Gracie but Gracie's beautiful best friend, Sienna. Obviously Gracie is happy for Sienna. Super happy! She helps Sienna compose the best texts, responding to A. J.'s surprisingly funny and appealing texts, just as if she were Sienna. Because Gracie is fine. Always! She's had lots of practice being the sidekick, second best.

It's all good. Well, almost all. She's trying.

Funny and tender, Well, That Was Awkward goes deep into the heart of middle school and finds that even with all the heartbreak, there can be explosions of hope and moments of perfect happiness.

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Listening Length	6 hours and 15 minutes
Author	Rachel Vail
Narrator	Simone Policano
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	28 February 2017
Publisher	Listening Library
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B06WRPGYNM
Best Sellers Rank	163,416 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 803 in Children's Books on Multigenerational Family Life 6,405 in Children's Books on Friendship (Books) 8,868 in Literature & Fiction for Children (Audible Books & Originals)

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Sheila M. Averbuch

One of my daughter's favourite books of the last year

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2018

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One of my daughter's favourite books of the last year - she's 11 and loves contemporary realistic fiction, the more friends-drama, the better. Got this for Christmas and had devoured it by early January. Main character Gracie sees herself as nothing but a sidekick to her best friend...and also privately suspects she's second-fiddle to her parents, too, who lost a 7-year-old daughter in a road accident before Gracie was born. It's fantastically and authentically written for the young teen reader who knows how it feels when everything that's old and reliable - friendships, family dynamics - starts to change, and there's no stopping it.

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Amy B

A great book for middle schoolers and up

Reviewed in the United States on 1 June 2017

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It can be hard to find books that really fit kids in middle school--not too young but not too mature--but this is a great book for 11-14 year olds and up. It's witty and fun. I appreciate that it deals with a common real life experience of early romance during these grades (a sudden crush and the behind-the-scenes negotiations that often ensue) but also has a poignant family story line that was really touching. I read it in one sitting.

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J. Dieterle

I couldn't stop hugging this book!

Reviewed in the United States on 6 July 2017

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Outstanding! I absolutely adored the main character, Gracie. As a kid, this would have been the sort of book I would have read over and over again. Even as an adult, I remember what it was like to be in middle school and I identify with Gracie. When I finished the book, I couldn't stop hugging it. This is one I will keep and read again. Highly recommend to upper elementary/middle school and even some teen readers.

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Katja

Another fantastic book from Rachel Vail

Reviewed in the United States on 3 November 2017

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Another fantastic book from Rachel Vail! I'm a longtime fan who started reading her when I was 11 or 12, and who finds her books just as funny, charming, and compellingly honest about life in middle and high school as I did then. This story's riff on Cyrano de Bergerac is so clever—and I love that a girl gets to take on his part—but the unfamiliar will be equally smitten and enchanted. As always, Vail's dialogue is spot-on, and the ending had me in happy tears. Extra fun if you're a New Yorker who's spent any time around Morningside Heights—you'll know every spot this book visits, right down the the pizza place!

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