Chirp by Kate Messner
Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books on February 4, 2020
ISBN: 1547602813
Pages: 240
Genres: Realistic Fiction
Format: Chapter Book Fiction
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This mystery involving entomophagy, or eating insects, is a #metoo book for middle school readers. Mia must come to terms — with the help of strong female characters — with the trauma of surviving (not-graphic) sexual harassment. Mia and her family move back to Vermont to help her grandmother with her cricket farm. Mia’s parents think her grandmother should sell but Mia and her new friends are determined to save the farm. There is also a mystery surrounding Mia’s sudden loss of interest in gymnastics.

Recommended for Cream of the Crop.

Reviewed by Karen Sandlin Silverman, Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham