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2025 William C. Morris Debut Award Winner
The Southern Book Prize Young Readers Winner
2025 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List Selection

2025 Green Mountain Book Award Nominee

2025 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction 2024
BookPage Best Young Adult Book of 2024
ABA May/June 2024 Kids' Indie Next List
SIBA 2024 March/April Kids Read This Next! Pick

Bookshop Best of YA 2024: Thrillers, Mysteries and Horror
Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of 2024
Indigo Best Book of 2024

When Jo-Lynn Kirby's former best friend—pretty, nice Maddie Price—comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After all, Jo has been an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked—and since everyone decided she deserved it. There’s no way Maddie would actually come to her for help.

But then Maddie is gone.

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Everyone is quick to write off Maddie as a runaway, but Jo can’t shake the feeling there's more to the story. To find out the truth, Jo needs to get back in with the people who left her behind—and the only way back in is through Hudson Harper-Moore. An old fling of Jo’s with his own reasons for wanting to find Maddie, Hudson hatches a fake dating scheme to get Jo back into their clique. But being back on the inside means Jo must confront everything she’d rather forget: the boys who betrayed her, the whispers that she had it coming, and the secrets that tore her and Maddie apart. As Jo digs deeper into Maddie’s disappearance, she’s left to wonder who she’s really searching for: Maddie, or the girl she used to be.

Not Like Other Girls is a stunning debut that takes a hard look at how we treat young women and their trauma, through the lens of a missing girl and a girl trying to find herself again.

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Adamo breaks through the teen-sleuth genre with outstanding takes on themes of consent, power, and the devastating end to friendships. It hits all the right notes to make a gripping and impactful book, from its compelling voice to its hurtling enigma of a plot, all while juggling several themes with nuance and profundity.

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