The Bigfoot Queen

by Jennifer Weiner

Overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes the third and final book in the “cheerful” (The New York Times Book Review) and “charming” (People) trilogy about friendship, adventure, and celebrating your true self.

Alice Mayfair, Millie Maximus, Jessica Jarvis, and Jeremy Bigelow face their biggest challenge yet when exposure of the sacred, secret world is threatened by a determined foe, someone with a very personal reason to want revenge against the creatures who call themselves the Yare.

The fate of the tribe and its members’ right to live out peacefully in the open is at stake. Impossible decisions are made, friendships are threatened, secrets are revealed, and tremendous courage is required. Alice, her friends, and her frenemies will have to work together and be stronger, smarter, and more accepting than they’ve ever been.

But can some betrayals ever be forgiven?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481470810
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Series:	Littlest Bigfoot Series , #3
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.62(h) x 0.64(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Summer Place, That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, In Her Shoes, Good in Bed, and a memoir in essays, Hungry Heart. She has appeared on many national television programs, including Today and Good Morning America, and her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among other newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWeiner.com.

Hometown:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Date of Birth:

March 28, 1970

Place of Birth:

De Ridder, Louisiana

Education:

B.A., Princeton University, 1991

Website:

http://www.jenniferweiner.com/

Editorial Reviews

A charming story about finding a safe place to let your freak flag fly.”

People

2023-08-11
The reclusive Yare, or Bigfoots, risk exposure and worse in turning at last to face their nemesis.

Folding a thorough recap into the opening chapters, Weiner picks up the action from the end of Little Bigfoot, Big City (2017) to bring her scattered cast of Yare, human No-Furs, and even someone who is both to Vermont for a showdown with biotech mogul Christopher Jarvis. The whirl of family revelations and reunions, new alliances, and bold choices, all leading to a victory snatched from the jaws of defeat and a positively cozy ending, will please readers who have been absorbed by the searches of Alice and Jessica for the causes of their physical differences, the trials of meek but gifted Millie, and Jeremy’s struggle with conflicting agendas. But it’s the sad, bad, genius villain who really steals the show here—because even as the heart-deep grief of losing the love of his life to cancer has twisted over the years into a thirst for revenge against the long-lived, disease-immune Yare, in the rousingly stomach-churning climax he ultimately stands revealed. Despite a late entry, he is definitely the most vivid, nuanced, and memorable character here. And even though Jarvis is as thoroughly despicable in word and deed as he is awful in appearance, might he not, the author obliquely suggests, still be worthy of compassion? The human cast is largely white.

A buoyant resolution, with just deserts, larger-than-life figures, and, perhaps, forgiveness all around. (Fantasy. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews