Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book. This did not influence my review.

Greta Grace is a novel about a girl standing up to bullying. Greta Grace has been bullied for a while by Casey, though she will not tell anyone about it because she fears that will make the bullying worse. The only person that she tells about this is her elderly neighbor, Mrs. McGee. However, when Mrs. McGee falls and goes into a coma, she has to figure it out herself.

This was a decent novel, a fast read, but it did have some problems. One of the biggest ones was Greta Grace herself. She was supposed to be thirteen but I thought that she sounded more like a nine year old doing things that a thirteen year old would do. It also wasn’t very realistic how not involved the adults were. Any teacher would have noticed the things that Casey did, but no one helped Greta Grace.

Overall, I think that this might be good for young girls under ten.

Greta Grace by Joanna Quinn

I picked this book up because the description was well, relatable. In this book, our main character Greta Grace is being bullied in middle school. We follow her experience coping with that and the recent hospitalisation of a closed one. The positives i found in this books were as follows:
1. Very easy writing. I finished it in one sitting.
2. Sweet relationship with a parent.
3. Realistic reluctance to report the bully to the authorities.

Cons:
1. Female characters villianised constantly.
2. Female characters judged for wearing clothes of their choice.
3. The boyfriend getting off the hook in every situation.
4. The main character being shown as the best person in the whole universe who is actually kinda selfish.
5. weird character development, she just went from hate hate hate to forgivness real quick.

In conclusion, this book was just not for me. I think some kids in catholic schools might like it.