Bright

"Real, relatable, and fully dimensional, Marianne is a main character you will root for with all your heart." â"Dan Gemeinhart, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Children

In this poignant middle grade novel, a struggling student joins her school''s celebrated quiz team in a bid to avoid failing eighth grade.

Marianne Blume has always known sheâs not smart.

After years of trying and trying at school, sheâs mastered the art of getting by on a combination of luck, deflection, and her winning personalityâ"that is, until she lands in the classroom of Mr. Garcia. Suddenly sheâs at risk of flunking his class, repeating the eighth grade, and getting left behind by her best friend, Skyla. To receive much-needed extra credit and get into high school, Marianne makes the desperate decision to join her schoolâs Quiz Quest team, only to find out that her teammates have problems of their ownâ"and that they need to win for her to get the credit.


Now Marianne will need to tryâ"like, actually tryâ"for the first time in her life, while also helping her teammates pull it together. Can Marianne learn to be smart? What does it mean to be âbright,â anyway? And will she be left in eighth grade forever?


Brigit Young (The Prettiest) has written an empowering story about bucking labels, overcoming preconceptions, and learning to hold your headâ"and handâ"up high.