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It Was JUST One Text
Paperback
Series: It Was Just a Like
ISBN13: 9781971734088
Publisher: S
Published: Mar 14 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
One angry text. One wrong chat. One mistake the entire eighth grade gets to read.
Mia only meant to text one friend.
After a long day of rumors, frustration, and drama involving her friend Ava and the boy everyone seems to notice, Mia sends one private rant she immediately regrets.
Except it doesn't go to one person.
It goes to PANTHER PRIDE 8TH GRADE COMMUNITY-the school group chat used by the entire eighth grade.
Teachers included.
By the next morning, screenshots are everywhere. Friends start choosing sides. Rumors spread faster than the truth. And one mistake Mia wishes she could take back turns an ordinary week into a social disaster she can't escape.
As the fallout grows, Mia has to figure out who her real friends are, how much damage one message can do, and whether honesty can fix what panic made worse.
Told in alternating chapters from different characters' perspectives, It Was Just One Text lets readers see the drama from every angle-the person who sent the message, the friends caught in the middle, and the classmates watching the rumor spread.
It Was Just One Text is a clean, fast-paced middle school story, perfect for middle school, teen, and young teen readers ages 10-18, about friendship, embarrassment, rumors, consequences, and surviving the kind of moment every kid fears-and every parent understands.
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