Your Next Favorite Summer Read: The Scott Fenwick Diaries!

Get ready to dive into what’s sure to be the perfect summer read for middle grade and young teens! The Scott Fenwick Diaries: A Novel is everything you want in a seasonal escape: fun, romantic – simply adorable. In the delightful tradition of Judy Blume, this contemporary coming-of-age comedy offers the wonderfully honest truth about the angst and uncertainty of pursuing your first real-life crush. You’ll find yourself laughing, cringing, and cheering for Millie as she navigates the hilarious and often awkward world of tweens and teens falling for someone new. It’s truly a relatable and heartwarming journey you won’t want to put down!

About The Scott Fenwick Diaries: A Novel:

In the tradition of Judy Blume, The Scott Fenwick Diaries: A Novel is a contemporary coming-of-age middle-grade comedy for teens and tweens with the honest truth about the angst and uncertainty of pursuing your first real-life crush.

In this laugh-out-loud, feel-good sequel to Worldwide Crush, superfan Millie grows out of her celebrity crush and lands awkwardly in something even more dramatic: her first-ever IRL middle school crush.

Is Millie ready to graduate from posters on the wall to a living, breathing boy who sits next to her in Social Studies? By herself, absolutely not. But with a little help from her friends—maybe! Feeling comically unprepared for this next phase of middle school, Millie calls on an adorkable cast of characters for instructions and support: Shauna, her wise bestie who uses her Magic 8 Ball for advice; her two cranky grandmas, who call cute boys “foxes”; Pringles, her beloved bulldog; and her bunny-loving neighbor, Tibbs, who dedicates herself to getting Millie an invite to the bar mitzvah of her dreams. But when a secret game of Truth or Dare at the bar mitzvah leads to her ultimate fantasy—Millie and Scott swaying together on the dance floor—the moment is ruined in humiliating fashion. And Millie doubts she’ll ever be ready for real-world middle school love after all.

Amidst a whirlwind of embarrassing family shenanigans and side-splitting missteps, Millie learns to trust her own instincts, grow up on her own terms, and never, ever sacrifice her friends for a crush.

Praise for The Scott Fenwick Diaries:

“The Scott Fenwick Diaries delivers a delightful glimpse into the twisty-turny inner world of tween girls. Bright, buoyant and deeply-felt, Kristin Nilsen captures middle school trauma and drama down to the tiniest freckle-on-the-earlobe details.”—Megan McCafferty, New York Times bestselling author of The Jessica Darling series and Best Frenemies Forever

“. . . The Scott Fenwick Diaries will engage and charm middle school readers worldwide.”—Mima Tipper, author of Kat’s Greek Summer

“Simply adorable. Readers will be charmed by crush-addicted Millie in this sweet and spirited follow-up to Worldwide Crush.”—Barbara Dee, author of Unstuck and Tear This Down

About the Author:

Kristin Nilsen is a children’s author and librarian with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things 70s and 80s.

She is the author of Worldwide Crush, a middle-grade novel inspired by her own childhood crush on Shaun Cassidy. She also co-hosts The Pop Culture Preservation Society, a weekly podcast celebrating the cultural nuggets of the classic Gen X childhood. Kristin lives in Minneapolis with her Gen X husband, her Gen Z son, and their rock and roll goldendoodle, Axl Rose Nilsen. The Scott Fenwick Diaries is the sequel to Worldwide Crush and Nilsen’s second middle-grade novel.