When a wrong-number text message from another gamer called Traveler offers her a chance at connection, prickly 13-year-old Ingrid, who doesnt trust easily, becomes fast friends with Traveler until she suspects they are a student at her school, forcing her to make difficult decision.
Can a guarded gamer girl lower her shield for a new friend… or more-than-friend?
"EARNEST AND LAUGH-OUT-LOUD... PITCH PERFECT."Publishers Weekly, starred review
Thirteen-year-old Ingrids been living a double life. At school, shes the Girl With Dead Parents, her popular friend Rachels charity case. Online, things are different: she crushes it in her favorite MMORPG, geeks out in her favorite fantasy fandom, and runs a popular social media account. If only real life were that easy.
But when Ingrid finally stands up to Rachel and starts drama, it suddenly feels like she has no life at all . . . and nowhere to sit at lunch.
Until she gets a supersweet wrong-number text from a mystery boy at her school, and everything starts to go right. Spending time together playing Ancient Tomes Online as Stitches and Traveler makes her feel like shes really connecting with someone. But when she begins to suspect that Traveler may be a popular classmate who is WAY above her in the cool-kid food chainand whose original text was actually intended for Rachelshe faces a difficult choice. Can they be friends IRL? She wants to open up, but getting close to people has hurt her before.
Is making real friends only fantasy after all?
Bye Forever, I Guess is the fresh, funny, and deeply sweet middle-grade debut of New York Times bestselling author Jodi Meadows (MY LADY JANE). Speaking to the messiness of middle-school friendships (and first loves), this is a warm, witty, enormously entertaining bookand a love letter to geek culture, gaming, and the healing power of fantasy.
"HILARIOUS... Charming, funny, and endearing."Kirkus Reviews
"The most DELIGHTFUL middle-grade romcom I've ever read!"Ellen Oh, award-winning author of Finding Junie Kim
