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A young activist learns about love, principle and the choices we all must make.
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For Atty in Love
A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2024
Selected for the American Library Association’s 2025 Rise Feminist Book List
”Into this poignant and funny tale of teen angst, Lockette weaves sensitive, reasoned considerations of both ethical and commonsense animal rights issues..."
-- Kirkus Reviews
“Atty has a sincere, honest, intelligent voice that commands attention.”
— Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio
“Charming, funny, and heartfelt, Atty in Love celebrates the excitement of first-time love while also embracing its awkwardness and complexity. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable read for both teens and teens at heart.”
-- Ruth Emmie Lang, author of The Wilderwoman and Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
For Tell It True
Winner of the 2022 Whippoorwill Book Award
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
"Wry, engrossing, even occasionally funny—right up to a gut-wrenching capper.”
-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Listed as a Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2021 -- and on the Kirkus list of Best YA Activist Reads of 2021
On Bookshop.org's list of Best YA Books of Fall 2021
“Through the act of bearing witness, Lisa evolves from a reluctant student editor to a budding journalist... Readers are likely to turn the final page of her story with new perspectives as well.”
– Kate Messner, The New York Times Book Review
For Atty at Law
“I laughed, I cried, I cheered.”
— Peg Kehret
“Atty’s voice is authentic, and her trials (both in court and in school) will resonate with readers. A double-must-read for all animal lovers.”
— Kirkus Reviews, starred review
”... a legal thriller in the vein of the Theodore Boone series by Grisham, but with considerably more heart.”
— Equal Opportunity Today