Not Your Story

By Meg Eden Kuyatt

The Way I Used to Be meets Saints and Misfits in this unflinching young adult novel about two neurodivergent girls grappling with what justice looks like after their community rallies around a popular athlete accused of rape. From Schneider Family Book Award Honor-winning author Meg Eden Kuyatt.

Prue has her future planned out. She's already made her school's varsity lacrosse team, and she's on track to impress the scouts who are eager to see her play. She's also doing her best to be patient with her church's purity sermons, her judgmental mom, and her pushy best friend, Lotus -- they all mean well, after all.

Lotus has an answer for everything. As a journalist on the school paper, she'll dig for the truth. And Lotus has a new crush -- on a lacrosse player named Dash. Maybe this will be the year she'll be brave enough to act on it.

Then something unthinkable happens: A boy sexually assaults Prue. And it's Dash.

With everything in Prue's life riding on a good lacrosse season and maintaining a strong reputation for the school's teams, she's afraid to tell anyone but Lotus what happened. As Prue's desire for normalcy clashes with Lotus's thirst for justice, they'll have to find a way to navigate their crumbling friendship and discover what true allyship -- and consent -- look like.

Told in two voices, this powerful novel follows two friends whose lives are torn apart, and who have to find their own ways back to telling their stories.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1546199772
• ISBN13: 9781546199779
• Release Date: July 2027
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher