Friday, I'm in Love! by Camryn Garrett

 

I borrowed this book from my local library's Libby App. I was looking for a book for the Kensington Book Challenge to fit the category of LGBTQIA joy. The cover exemplifies joy to me, but it was doubly nice that the story was also joyful. 

There is one POV in this book and that is our MC Mahalia, Mahalia is a high school junior who lives with her mom, works part-time, and is stressed about the SAT, going to college, and has a crush on the new girl at school--Siobahn.  So we are along for the ride as Mahalia and Siobahn begin a friendship, Mahalia's mom has surgery, and Mahalia deals with casual racism at school. There are ups and downs in the story but all the main characters have parents, no one is sexually assaulted, or kicked out by their parents because they identify as queer. The book ends with a lovely party and the song this book is titled after is used in the story to lovely effect. 

5 start for this fun fluffy first love story.