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Sorora "Aura" Laurent never meant to disrupt Riley Matthews' perfectly balanced world.
Blunt, awkward, academically gifted, and recovering from a serious knee injury, Aura transfers into John Quincy Adams Middle School with no interest in fitting in. But somehow, people keep gravitating toward her anyway. Farkle Minkus is fascinated by her honesty, Maya Hart can't decide whether she understands Aura or resents her, and Riley slowly realizes that for the first time in her life, she may not be everyone's favorite person in the room.
As middle school turns into high school, friendships shift, feelings deepen, and the cracks in the group become impossible to ignore. Through first love, jealousy, growing pains, and the pressure of figuring out who they really are, Aura becomes the one person nobody expected to change everything.
Especially Farkle. Because he falls first.
And hard.