Binding Off

Always the New Girl #0.5

by Kelly Vincent

This is a prequel to Always the New Girl – and it’s highly recommended you start there, and first get to know Sarah Redmond as she begins her junior year at Sierra Vista High School.

Because in Binding Off, you get to head back to eighth grade.Cringing yet?

Well Sarah Redmond was, because being thirteen and unpopular was hard enough – then her mom got them kicked out of yet another boyfriend's house.

And what this meant was they’d have no choice but to go live with her grandma again.

But Sarah’s been uprooted before, moving around is just another part of her less-than-typical life up to this point. And it all seems worth it this time around after she meets Mateo at her new school.

But is Sarah truly ready for where this relationship could lead?Kudos for the in the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Novella

82 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 10, 2022

About the author

Kelly Vincent wrangles data weekdays and spends the rest of their time playing with words. They grew up in Oklahoma but have moved around quite a bit, with Glasgow, Scotland being their favorite stop. They now live near Seattle with several cats who help them write their stories by strategically walking across the keyboard, with their first novel, Finding Frances, a fine example of this technique. Their three subsequent books, Ugly, Always the New Girl, and Binding Off, were released in 2022. Finding Frances won several indie awards and Ugly was selected as the Honor book for SCBWI’s Spark Award in the Books for Older Readers category for 2022. Kelly has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth program. Find them at kellyvincent.net, @kvbooks on Instagram, and @kv_books on TikTok.