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The Fight for Midnight

by Dan Solomon
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It's been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past twelve months, he's lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. But on June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. At last, he feels like his luck might be changing. Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest Wendy Davis's historic filibuster of the abortion bill HB2, and she's rallying everyone she knows to join her. Until today, Alex didn't know what a filibuster was, and he'd never given a moment's thought to how he felt about abortion. But at the Capitol, he finds himself in the middle of a tense scene full of pro-life "blueshirts," pro-choice "orangeshirts," and blustering politicians playing political games as Wendy Davis tries to run out the clock at midnight. Alex may have entered the Capitol looking to spend time with Cassie, but the political gets personal when he runs into his ex-friend Shireen in an orange T-shirt and quickly realizes that when it comes to an issue like abortion, neutral isn't an option. Over the next nineteen hours—as things get increasingly heated both on the Senate floor and between the two sets of protesters—Alex will struggle to figure out what side he's on, knowing that whatever choice he makes will bring him face-to-face with his past mistakes.

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    June 20, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781635830873

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    • Kirkus

      May 1, 2023
      A grieving, lonely teen unexpectedly lands in the middle of a political protest. It's 2013, and Alex faces the summer before his senior year with the grim acceptance that his only friend is Mr. Monaghan, an 85-year-old man he reads to at an adult day center for his required community service. Alex is shocked but thrilled to get a call from cute, unattainable Cassie, "the most Catholic girl on the planet who isn't an actual nun"--they have known each other since their elementary years in Catholic school, but they aren't exactly friends. She asks him to come to the Texas Capitol building for something important, which turns out to be a filibuster for Senate Bill 5, proposing a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. Alex is only vaguely aware of the controversy, and he experiences many reckonings throughout the day. This smart, poignant novel effectively weaves the backstory of the death of Alex's best friend into the present-day events, portraying Cassie, who is there in support of the abortion ban, as intelligent and caring even as it makes clear the hypocrisy of the politicians involved in its proposal. Well-drawn secondary characters shine, including confident, compassionate Iranian American Shireen, Alex's classmate and former friend who is present to support the filibuster, and foulmouthed Mr. Monaghan, who is an astute, progressive role model. Cassie is cued Latine; other major characters read White. A thoughtful and compelling personal story set amid larger societal issues. (Fiction. 13-18)

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