Best Fiction for Young Adults

YALSA 2022

Sequel out now!

Veronica Mars meets Moxie in the hilarious and thought-provoking sequel to Margot Mertz Takes it Down.

It’s senior year. And Margot’s on a mission to be a better Margot. Which means saying goodbye to her old cleanup ways—and their inherent moral ambiguities.

“Carrie McCrossen and Ian McWethy have created a winner of a heroine in Margot, a hilarious, tough-cookie feminist with just enough self-doubt to make her relatable… We can’t wait to see where Margot’s adventures take her next.”
“A thoughtful, funny, righteously angry take on a serious subject.”
“McCrossen and McWethy don’t pull punches... while making Margot a sympathetic, fury-propelled narrator with a winningly noir-inflected voice.”
“Margot Mertz Takes It Down dives deeply and unapologetically into the taboos and dark side of adolescence… Margot Mertz is the modern hero all girls need.”

Carrie and Ian at work

Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting YA contemporary novel following Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school.

For the right price, high school junior Margot Mertz will go to the ends of the internet to remove your nip-slip, dick pic, or embarrassing DM. At least that’s what it says on her business card. Margot founded a now notorious company that helps students, teachers, even a local weatherman, discreetly clean up their digital shame. And since her parents lost her college fund, Margot is happy to work for anyone… if they can pay, she can clean.

But when a fellow student hires her to take down some leaked nudes, Margot discovers a secret revenge porn site featuring Roosevelt High girls. And hell hath no fury like Margot when she sees girls’ butts shared without their consent. With the help of an unwitting ally, the popular and uncomfortably handsome Avery Green, Margot will gain access to the far flung cliques of Roosevelt High. Anything to find the mastermind (read: asshole) behind the site. But the more she digs, the deeper and darker the case becomes until Margot realizes that some jobs are so dirty, no one can come away clean. Even her. Gross.

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