Welcome to my Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month blog post for January 2019! (Oh my gosh 2018 went by quick!) If you’ve been following my Instagram, you might have noticed that I’ve been posting about the Indigo Teen Staff Picks since November 2017. I started talking about these picks in January 2018, and have enjoyed discussing them with you all! Keep reading to see which book is this month’s Indigo Teen Staff Pick!

For those hearing about Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month for the first time, it’s a program run by Chapters/Indigo Books & Music Inc. in which 100 staff members read a number of teen and YA books and then vote for their pick of the month! Each monthly pick is announced by Chapters/Indigo at the beginning of each month, and each of the picks are kept secret until then! Isn’t that exciting? Please be sure to use #IndigoStaffPicks if you share anything about this on social media, or if you want to show off your own copy of a Teen Staff Picks book (in connection to this)!

The Field Guide to the
North American Teenager
by Ben Philippe

You can read the synopsis below, and get your own copy
at a reduced price on the Chapters / Indigo website this month!

Title: The Field Guide To The North American Teenager
Author: Ben Philippe
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Contemporary
Publisher: Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins)
Published: January 8, 2019
Source: Indigo Books & Music Inc.

Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those three things don’t bode well when you are moving to Austin, Texas. Plunked into a new high school and sweating a ridiculous amount from the oppressive Texas heat, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this way he can at least amuse himself until it’s time to go back to Canada, where he belongs.

Yet, against all odds, those labels soon become actual people to Norris. Be it loner Liam, who makes it his mission to befriend Norris, or Madison the beta cheerleader, who is so nice that it has to be a trap. Not to mention Aarti the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, who might, in fact, be a real love interest in the making. He even starts playing actual hockey with these Texans.

But the night of the prom, Norris screws everything up royally. As he tries to pick up the pieces, he realizes it might be time to stop hiding behind his snarky opinions and start living his life—along with the people who have found their way into his heart.

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THANKS SO MUCH FOR READING MY INDIGO TEEN STAFF PICK OF THE MONTH POST! HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK? AND IF SO, WHAT DID YOU THINK? OR IS IT ON YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS!