Who Put This Song On?

ISBN-10: 0525707549
ISBN-13: 9780525707547
Author: Parker, Morgan
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: March 2021

Copyright: 2019

Page Count: 336

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: HL760L
Accelerated Reader Level: 5.4
Accelerated Reader Points: 11.0

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women *

Description
In the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and Girl in Pieces, comes poet Morgan Parker's pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored. Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she's in therapy. She can't count the number of times she's been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her "weird" outfits, and been told she's not "really" black. Also, she's spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there's that, too. Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat--and it's telling them how to feel, who to vote for, what to believe. Morgan wonders, when can she turn this song off and begin living for herself? Life may be a never-ending hamster wheel of agony, but Morgan finds her crew of fellow outcasts, blasts music like there's no tomorrow, discovers what being black means to her, and
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