Posted John David Anderson

Posted is set in an American middle school. The narrator is a kid who needs a tribe. He finds three friends and this means he has someone to sit with at lunch, someone to hang out with on the weekend and most importantly (even though he doesn't really talk about this) Frost needs other kids to care about and to know other kids care about him.

Characters:
Frost - real name - named after the poet Robert Frost. Frost is the narrator who explains how the posting of post-it notes began, and how it escalated into something nasty.

Bench - real name Jeremiah Jones - called Bench because in most sports he seems to be left on the bench even though he is very keen to play and has some skill. He is left out because other kids are better players.

Deedee - real name Advik Patel - fan of dungeons and dragons, Harry Potter, and dice which he uses to predict the future.

Wolf (short for Wolfgang Mozart) - real name Morgan - musical genius who wins lots of competitions but most people at school do not know about this.

Then Rose comes along. She is new. She is a girl. AND she sits at their lunch table. Bench leaves the group and Frost doesn't know what to do.  Someone puts a post-it note up in the hall on a student locker. At first the other notes that appear are innocuous but then things turn really nasty.

Do you like the cover of Posted? It caught my eye. I also knew the author John David Anderson because I just loved his book Ms Bixby's Last Day.

I think this book will appeal to junior high school students. You do need some knowledge of US High Schools and their culture but, even though I am the wrong demographic, I did read this book (369 pages) in almost one sitting.

Here are a few review comments which will give you more plot details:

The characters are all wonderfully drawn and fully realized.If anything, Frost is the least developed, but this is mainly because he is still trying to figure out who he is. Rose is terrific, and if I didn't know better, would have thought she was inspired by one of my own friends growing up. Ms Yingling

From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. Bixby’s Last Day, comes a humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, and the failures of communication between kids. In middle school, words aren’t just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever. YA Books Central

Kids, and the rest of the world, need more books like this one. Kirkus star review