Honey and Me
**A 2023 Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book!**
**A Kirkus Best Book of 2022**
* "Authentic, joyful, achingly real." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
* "An effortless story that is both widely relatable and culturally specific...highly recommended." -- School Library Journal, starred review
"Refreshing." -- School Library Connection, recommended
Milla and Honey have been best friends since forever.
Milla envies Honey's confidence, her charisma, and her big, chaotic family--especially when they provide a welcome escape from Milla's own small family and quiet house. In their close-knit Jewish community, the two girls do everything together, from delivering meals to an ill-tempered elderly neighbor, to shopping at a local thrift store, celebrating the holidays, and going to their first bat mitzvahs while studying for their own.
So when Honey joins Milla's school for sixth grade, why is it not as great as Milla expected? Can their friendship survive all the ups and downs the year has in store for them? And will Milla ever find the courage to step out of Honey's shadow and into her own spotlight?
Charming, authentic, and wise, Honey and Me is a classic coming-of-age story filled with relatable middle school struggles, keen insight, and sparkling humor.
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"Heartwarming...and inspiring...I loved it!" -- M. Evan Wolkenstein, author of Turtle Boy, winner of the 2021 Sydney Taylor Book Award
"A gentle coming-of-age tale of friendship, family and faith that revels in the small moments of Jewish life." -- Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling author of Frankie and Bug, We Are Inevitable, and If I Stay
At once Jewish and universal." -- Madelyn Rosenberg, coauthor of Not Your All-American Girl and This Is Just a Test, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book
Drazin has created an emotional and heartfelt modern-day classic that will resonate with young readers." -- Elaine Vickers, award-winning author of Like Magic and Paper Chains
"Puts its finger precisely on the pulse of adolescence, capturing the power, and also heartbreak, of close female friendships, difficult mother-daughter relationships and teachers who change our lives forever." -- Jewish Journal
"Hon-ey and Me illus-trates that Jew-ish obser-vance can be impor-tant and mean-ing-ful while still leav-ing room for the dai-ly dra-mas of pre-teen-and-teen life. Appre-ci-a-tion for fam-i-ly, com-mu-ni-ty, and close friends is a hall-mark of the sto-ry." -- Jewish Book Council
