All the Jingle Ladies by Beth Garrod, 352 pages. Scholastic, 2024. $12 (paperback)
Language:G (3 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: G (kissing only); Violence: G (none)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
15yo Molly Bell hates Christmas. Well, really she hates the viral song and video her parents recorded when she was 5yo. She wants to be a songwriter - but that kid of sell-out song. Now that song is in the hot new romcom for the Christmas season and Molly’s family has been invited to the premiere. Disaster strikes and when Molly hides in a closet, she finds it already occupied by a very hot boy - and they’re locked in.
Cue all kinds of secrets, misdirection, hijinks, and romantic gestures. Plenty of pages for fun and drama. I kind of forgot that Molly is only 15 - the situation reads more like a 17yo. But it is all so cute, that it won’t matter. Great for any holiday romance display.
Molly is white; Jay is depicted as black on the cover (I did not pick that up from the book); there is a side LGBT romance brewing.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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