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Reasons to Hate Me: (A Young Adult Novel about an Autistic Teen, Friendship, Cyberbullying, and Romance)

Reasons to Hate Me: (A Young Adult Novel about an Autistic Teen, Friendship, Cyberbullying, and Romance)

Metallo, Susan

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Young Adult Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 22, 2026

ISBN10: 1536253731
ISBN13: 9781536253733
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
Susan Metallo has the best YA voice I've read in years--sharp, hilarious, and heartbreakingly honest. I couldn't put this book down. --Rachael Allen, author of A Taxonomy of Love and Harley Quinn: Redemption

There are countless good reasons to hate seventeen-year-old Jess Lanza, Stone Bridge High's premier autistic theater nerd and Champion of Questionable Life Choices. Unfortunately, the cyberbullies that hounded her all summer are stuck on last year's life-ruining mistake, the one that earned Jess the title Boyfriend Stealing Slutbag. To relieve the bullies of their stale content, Jess vows to dazzle them with online posts about her own ridiculous fails and embarrassing character traits. But somehow, all of Jess's posts circle back to her friendship with Chloe--the friendship her alleged sluttiness pulverized--and the gaping hole she left in Jess's life. As Jess chases Chloe's forgiveness, she must confront some of her darkest weaknesses--and darker still, the truth of what happened with Chloe's boyfriend, a story neither of them wants to hear. Told through a series of blog posts and short scripts, this cleverly staged and structured debut novel crackles with spot-on dialogue, features a range of fully developed neurodiverse characters, and sharply evokes high school in all its hilarious and agonizing complexity.

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