Can two best friends thrown onto two very different paths learn to grow together or will they fall apart?
Etta dreams of being the first woman to play for the St. Louis Cardinals. Gina just wants to hang with her best friend and baseball is a fun way to do that! When the varsity coach says, “No Girls Allowed” Etta fights for her right to belong while Gina learns she doesn’t love baseball enough. A diverging path emerges for the first time and the two best friends face tough decisions about who they are both with and without each other.
The fight leads Etta to getting closer to Gina’s twin brother, Carl who tries to help her challenge the principal, the coach, and the school’s overall decision to stick to old-fashioned rules. Gina, on the other hand, follows her annoying cousin to the spring musical where she gets a choice role and a very cute onstage boyfriend. Things aren’t easy, Etta and Gina must decide how far they are willing to go to be completely themselves. Can the relationship survive high school politics, boys and new friends or will the dynamic duo be lost forever?
Jennifer Gregson’s latest young adult coming of age novel, Etta & Gina, is a funny and poignant look at the awkward lives of teenage girls. If you like novels by Julie Murphy, Rainbow Rowell, or John Green then you will love Jennifer’s latest story about the complexity of female friendships, the weight of family expectations, and the growing pains that come with trying to figure it all out.
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Jennifer Gregson was born and raised in St. Louis, MO so all the food references in this book were straight from the heart - Imo’s is life!
She moved to NYC in 2001 to follow her dream of becoming a Broadway star, but after years of auditioning she started to crave a different way of entertaining others and decided to try her hand at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and a new love emerged.
When she’s not writing her next YA novel, she’s chilling in Queens with her husband and son, singing musical theatre songs, drinking coffee, and dreaming about her next Disney vacation.
