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What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski
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What Happened to Rachel Riley?

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Length 5 hours 49 minutes
Language English
Narrators Ferdelle Capistrano, Alexandra Hunter, Karla Serrato, Gail Shalan, Reena Dutt, Caitlin Davies, Andrew Eiden & Kirby Heyborne

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  • ALA Notable Children's Book

  • Regional Indie Bestseller

  • Audie Award Winner

  • Edgar Award Nominee

  • Cybils Award Nominee

  • YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults

  • New York Public Library Best Book of the Year

  • Chicago Public Library Best of the Best

  • Amazon Best Book of the Year

  • SLJ Best Book of the Year

  • Texas Lone Star Reading List

  • Capital Choices Noteworthy Book for Children

  • BookPage Best Book of the Year

In this engrossing and inventive contemporary middle grade novel that's Where'd You Go, Bernadette with a #MeToo message, an eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly popular girl is now the pariah of her new school. 

Anna Hunt may be the new girl at East Middle School, but she can already tell there’s something off about her eighth-grade class. Rachel Riley, who just last year was one of the most popular girls in school, has become a social outcast. But no one, including Rachel Riley herself, will tell Anna why.

As a die-hard podcast enthusiast, Anna knows there’s always more to a story than meets the eye. So she decides to put her fact-seeking skills to the test and create her own podcast around the question that won’t stop running through her head: What happened to Rachel Riley?

With the entire eighth grade working against her, Anna dives headfirst into the evidence. Clue after clue, the mystery widens, painting an even more complex story than Anna could have anticipated. But there’s one thing she’s certain of: If you’re going to ask a complicated question, you better be prepared for the fallout that may come with the answer. 

Claire Swinarski is the author of multiple books for both kids and adults. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Seventeen, Milwaukee magazine, and many other publications. She lives in small-town Wisconsin with her husband and three kids, where she writes books, wears babies, and wrangles bread dough.

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