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Almost Flying
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
In this Stonewall Honor book, a week-long amusement park road trip becomes a true roller coaster of emotion when Dalia realizes she has more-than-friend feelings for her new bestie.
A Stonewall Honor Book
"Dalia’s journey to self-discovery is refreshingly honest, and this entire cast of characters will steal your heart.” – Maulik Pancholy, actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best At It
Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. With Dalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of summer bonding--meaning Alexa has to cancel the amusement park road trip she's been planning for months. Luckily Dalia comes up with a new plan: If she joins Alexa on her trip and brings Rani, the new girl from her swim team, along maybe she can have the perfect summer after all. But what starts out as a week of funnel cakes and Lazy River rides goes off the rails when Dalia discovers that Alexa's girlfriend is joining the trip. And keeping Alexa's secret makes Dalia realize one of her own: She might have more-than-friend feelings for Rani.
Critic reviews
A 2022 Stonewall Honor Book
“Almost Flying is a thrilling celebration of all the twists and turns, breathtaking jumps and heart-pounding falls of a first crush. Dalia’s journey to self-discovery is refreshingly honest, and this entire cast of characters will steal your heart. Every middle schooler will want to take this ride.” (Maulik Pancholy, actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It)
“Fierce and tender all at once, Almost Flying is a soaring roller coaster ride of a book that stole my breath with every heartwarming twist and each empowering turn.” (Ashley Herring Blake, Stonewall Honor-winning author of Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World)
“A story about the messiness of family, the confusion and awkwardness of a first crush, and the bonds that can only exist between older and younger queer teens. This charming debut had my heart soaring.” (Nicole Melleby, author of Hurricane Season and In the Role of Brie Hutchens...)
“A delightfully queer-positive and engrossing road trip story.”(Booklist)
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- 10-06-21
...a delightful ride!
I've been tearing through the contemporary sapphic YA flood of books released recently and when purchasing an audiobook on audible I was recommended this, 'Almost Flying' a queer middle-grade debut from Jake Maia Arlow and I thought why not, I'm already to old to be reading YA so why not fully commit to my apparent endless adolescence. I also gotta say that I love that we have a book about queer middle schoolers, we all deserve representation in media.
It's a really sweet story with some heavy elements.. divorce and parental abandonment looming large but of course the main event are the possible feelings Dalia is having for her new friend, and her relationship with Alexa, her new stepsister and her father who she feels she might be losing to her stepmom.
It was just a wonderful experience overall, the main four characters are so sweet and so queer, the setting is perfect, solid representation, the angst is just right for a middle grade story and it's very genuine and true to life. Go read it, or as in my case, listen to it!
I also must mention Em Grosland who narrated the book, take a bow lady, you nailed it.
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