2.5***

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Gabriele “Truly” Gonzalez is a smart eighth-grader who is liked by most everyone. But when she’s invited to join THE Popular kids’ table, she unthinkingly leaves her best friend behind. And the drama begins.

I found this in the YA section but it’s more middle-school than young adult, in my opinion. Vail gives each of the central kids a voice, changing narrators from chapter to chapter. Some are told as a series of text messages. All are told in first person, and I occasionally lost track of which kid was narrating: Natasha? Brooke? Jack? Clay?

Being a middle-school drama there’s the expected “mean girl” behavior and cyber bullying. But I was surprised by how one of the Moms gets involved in this cyber bullying.

I did really like Truly, her mom, and her friend Jack. (I’d love to read a novel centered on him.) But I thought it took far too long to get to a positive message. Just not my cup of tea at all, though I could see why tweens might like it. ( )

I absolutely loved this book, no slowing down in this book! ( )

"Vail brings her sharp observations and wry humor to the world of eighth-grade friendships."

http://web.a.ebscohost.com.libsrv.wku.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=34&s...

This is a fiction story of a girl named Truly who becomes popular at her school but then ends up in a web of lies on social media.

https://books.google.com/books?id=EB9hDQAAQBAJ&dq=Unfriended / Rachel Vail.&source=gbs_navlinks_s