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Such Great Heights
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- GenresYoung AdultContemporary
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Expected publication August 11, 2026
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About the author
Rajani LaRocca
34 books560 followersRajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young people, including Red, White, and Whole, which won a 2022 Newbery Honor, the Walter Dean Myers Award, Golden Kite Award, and New England Book Award. Her other books include: Midsummer’s Mayhem (2019), Seven Golden Rings (2020), Bracelets for Bina’s Brothers (2021), Much Ado About Baseball (2021), Where Three Oceans Meet (2021), My Little Golden Book About Kamala Harris (2021), The Secret Code Inside You (2021), I'll Go and Come Back (2022), and more. She’s always been an omnivorous reader, and now she is an omnivorous writer of fiction and nonfiction, novels and picture books, prose and poetry. She finds inspiration in her family, her childhood, the natural world, math, science, and just about everywhere she looks. To connect with Rajani and learn more about her and her books visit her at www.RajaniLaRocca.com and on Twitter and Instagram @rajanilarocca.
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January 22, 2026
Review of eARC from Edelweiss
Rajani LaRocca has written fantasy and NIV for middle grade readers (Sona and the Golden Beasts, Mirror Mirror and Red White & Whole) and with Chris Baron has also written for those in early elementary school. Now, she brings her talents to grades 9-12 with a high school drama that loosely aligns with the Indian tale of Prince Rama and his love Sita with themes of truth, perseverance through adversity and staying true to who you are.
Siya was on her high school’s mock trial team as a researcher during her freshman year, but this year she is determined to earn an attorney slot and be only the second sophomore to do it. Competition is stiff and several juniors and seniors stand between her and a position that will get her that much closer to her long held goal of becoming a lawyer as determined to serve others in their quest for justice as her mother was until her untimely death 6 years ago. Readers will be immersed into not only the intense preparation and competition of being on a mock trial team but the drama between team members as well as the mystery of the similarities between the trial specifics and Siya’s mother’s fatal car accident on an icy road when she was in the 4th grade. Siya’s quest for truth and her quickly developing romance with one of team captains coincide with the themes of love and truth in the legend of Rama and Sita and provide asides between chapters centered on the contemporary romance and mock trial season. Also key in the story arc are the relationships between Siya and her older sister and father.
So much to love about LaRocca’s first YA novel! As in her middle grade works, the depth of the main characters’ emotions is heartfelt and realistic and with several different scenarios and personalities represented, most readers will easily find connections to their own lives. The romance between Siya and team captain Raj is at times sweet, at others passionate, and at still others, conflicted and don’t all those things ring true to high school?
*Target age: grades 8-12
*Profanity: only 3 instances with 1 being an F-bomb
*Sexual content: only kissing with one instance when a button on Siya’s shirt is undone but is quickly redone
*Representation: Siya and Raj are Indian American and their food and celebrations are incorporated into the novel seamlessly; mock trial team co-captain Tessa is identified as dancing with her girlfriend at a teammate’s party and in another scene introduces her girlfriend to the team.
*Alcohol: Teammate Lorenzo hosts a party at his home while his parents are away and alcohol is consumed by many of the high school students present.
Rajani LaRocca has written fantasy and NIV for middle grade readers (Sona and the Golden Beasts, Mirror Mirror and Red White & Whole) and with Chris Baron has also written for those in early elementary school. Now, she brings her talents to grades 9-12 with a high school drama that loosely aligns with the Indian tale of Prince Rama and his love Sita with themes of truth, perseverance through adversity and staying true to who you are.
Siya was on her high school’s mock trial team as a researcher during her freshman year, but this year she is determined to earn an attorney slot and be only the second sophomore to do it. Competition is stiff and several juniors and seniors stand between her and a position that will get her that much closer to her long held goal of becoming a lawyer as determined to serve others in their quest for justice as her mother was until her untimely death 6 years ago. Readers will be immersed into not only the intense preparation and competition of being on a mock trial team but the drama between team members as well as the mystery of the similarities between the trial specifics and Siya’s mother’s fatal car accident on an icy road when she was in the 4th grade. Siya’s quest for truth and her quickly developing romance with one of team captains coincide with the themes of love and truth in the legend of Rama and Sita and provide asides between chapters centered on the contemporary romance and mock trial season. Also key in the story arc are the relationships between Siya and her older sister and father.
So much to love about LaRocca’s first YA novel! As in her middle grade works, the depth of the main characters’ emotions is heartfelt and realistic and with several different scenarios and personalities represented, most readers will easily find connections to their own lives. The romance between Siya and team captain Raj is at times sweet, at others passionate, and at still others, conflicted and don’t all those things ring true to high school?
*Target age: grades 8-12
*Profanity: only 3 instances with 1 being an F-bomb
*Sexual content: only kissing with one instance when a button on Siya’s shirt is undone but is quickly redone
*Representation: Siya and Raj are Indian American and their food and celebrations are incorporated into the novel seamlessly; mock trial team co-captain Tessa is identified as dancing with her girlfriend at a teammate’s party and in another scene introduces her girlfriend to the team.
*Alcohol: Teammate Lorenzo hosts a party at his home while his parents are away and alcohol is consumed by many of the high school students present.
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