{"id":16952,"date":"2022-03-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2022-03-20T23:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T03:03:47","slug":"blog-tour-ellen-outside-the-lines-by-aj-sass-review-aesthetic-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-ellen-outside-the-lines-by-aj-sass-review-aesthetic-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Ellen Outside the Lines by AJ Sass (Review + Aesthetic Board!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for ELLEN OUTSIDE THE LINES by AJ Sass! I\u2019m so excited to share my review with you today, AND my aesthetic board, PLUS more information about the author and tour! And now without any further ado, let\u2019s get to the review!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I received this book for free from TBR and Beyond Tours in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>\"BlogEllen Outside the Lines<\/strong> by A.J. Sass<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> March 22, 2022 by Little Brown Books for Young Readers<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Contemporary<\/a>, Middle Grade<\/a>, Neurodivergent<\/a>, Queer<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 336
Format:<\/strong> ARC<\/a>
Source:<\/strong> TBR and Beyond Tours
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Author Links:<\/strong> Website<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Goodreads<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, TikTok<\/a>
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Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple with Abba and Mom every Friday and Saturday. Ellen only gets crushes on girls, never boys, and she knows she can always rely on her best-and-only friend, Laurel, to help navigate social situations at their private Georgia middle school.
\nLaurel has always made Ellen feel like being autistic is no big deal. But lately, Laurel has started making more friends, and cancelling more weekend plans with Ellen than she keeps. A school trip to Barcelona seems like the perfect place for Ellen to get their friendship back on track.  Except it doesn't.
\nToss in a new nonbinary classmate whose identity has Ellen questioning her very binary way of seeing the world, homesickness, a scavenger hunt-style team project that takes the students through Barcelona to learn about Spanish culture and this trip is anything but what Ellen planned.
\nMaking new friends and letting go of old ones is never easy, but Ellen might just find a comfortable new place for herself if she can learn to embrace the fact that life doesn't always stick to a planned itinerary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t