My friend Anna told me this book was good and I was like, "you know I don't really like sports books," and she was like, "It's about running...for OFFICE" and I was like, sold. Specifically it's about being the teenage daughter of a Republican Cuban-American senator who's campaigning in the presidential primary, and how as a kid you just hear the bland speeches and exciting press stuff and maybe don't realize that actually uhh even though your dad takes you to beach cleanup events and SAYS he cares about the environment, in practice he actually cares more about corporations than about protecting the environment?

There have been some great recent YA books about young activists who are already, uh, active, but I love this portrayal of a teen slowly realizing that she actually can't trust the adults in her life to do the right thing, and that maybe her voice and the voices of other teens can have some power.

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And at the same time, it doesn't end up feeling too trite or too neatly-resolved--the teen activists don't totally save the day and there are still big messy problems, but it still shows that their actions could make small, important changes.