Emily Posts

Volume XXX / Issue 34 - May 10 / 2024
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Emily Posts

Author: 
Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Toronto, ON: Tundra Books, 2024
264 pp., hardcover, $22.99
ISBN: 
9781774882047
Grades: 
Grades 7-10
Ages: 
Ages 12-15
Review by: 
Sheryl Lee
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Excerpt: 

After a minute, I toss my phone to the side and start making notes for my meeting with Mr. Lau, which I am absolutely, definitely going to have on Monday morning.

1. Be polite but firm.

2.
3.

When I can’t think of anything else, I go to the expert. I pull Emily Post’s Etiquette from my shelf and flip to the section on business. (Unfortunately, Emily Post didn’t write any chapters about middle school.)

She says that when you’re having a business meeting, you shouldn’t sit with your feet on your desk and a newspaper spread in your lap. That doesn’t seem applicable. She also says it’s good to appear polished. “One advantage of polish is that one’s opponent can never tell what is going on under the glazed surface of highly finished manners.”

I’m not entirely sure what she means. Still, I write it down.

2. Be polished.

This isn’t going to help me. I guess the only thing left for my list is:

3. Convince Mr. Lau that climate marches are good and censorship is bad.

It’s lucky I have the rest of the weekend to work out the details.

Sighing, I close my notebook and log onto YouHappy again. There’s a new video from the Palette Pixie, offering her best tips on how to make your influence last.

It’s exactly what I need.

Tanya Lloyd Kyi’s Emily Posts is a middle school novel about the obstacles Emily Laurence, an eighth grader, faces when fighting for her right to freely post her podcasts and selfies online as an influencer. Readers follow Emily’s struggles through her relationships with friends, classmates, teachers, stepfamily, and her online followers. As this story takes place in middle school, social drama is the highest priority on any middle schooler’s mind. And to make matters worse, Emily and her mom just moved into a new townhome that they share with her future stepdad and stepbrother.
Emily has her own phone, but her mother forbids her to post any pictures on social media until she is older. Emily finds this rule is keeping her from building her online presence if her career goal is to be an influencer on YouHappy. Meanwhile, Emily and a few friends have a podcast that they post on the school website, and they would like to support and help to promote a climate march hosted by a high school climateer, Maya Parsons. Getting middle schoolers to support a climate initiative should be something Mr Lau, the principal, should support, but Emily soon finds out that she has bigger obstacles that prevent her from posting this podcast. Emily has to “etiquettely” maneuver a way to promote and go to this climate march.

Emily Posts is a lighthearted fun novel that young teenagers would enjoy reading and could relate to Emily’s struggles.

Recommended
Reviewer: 

Sheryl Lee, a teacher-librarian in the New Westminster School District, is mother of two elementary-aged children.