Asking for a Friend (eBook preview)

Presenting … First-chapter Friday, the eBook edition. This month’s selection features Asking for a Friend, by Ronnie Riley.

Why go through the stress of making friends when you can just pretend? It works for Eden Jones and their social anxiety... until their mom announces she’s throwing them a birthday party and all their friends are invited. Eden’s “friends,” Duke, Ramona, and Tabitha, are all real kids from school... but Eden’s never actually spoken to them before. Now Eden will do whatever it takes to convince them to be their friends — at least until the party is over. When things start to go better than Eden expects, and the group starts to bond, Eden finds themselves trapped in a lie that gets worse the longer they keep it up. What happens if their now sort-of-real friends discover that Eden hasn’t been honest with them from the very beginning? I read this eBook via the Libby app, and I obtained it through San Francisco Public Library.
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