A review by ihateprozac
Save Me a Seat by Gita Varadarajan, Sarah Weeks

5.0

This was so beautiful! It perfectly captures the pain of not fitting in at primary school, and how cruel bullies can be if you’re visibly different. We have a protagonist with an Auditory Processing Disorder as well as a protagonist who’s recently relocated from India, and it was painful (but so accurate) to read how they were treated by the class bully. This book also perfectly captures the frustration when our parents failed to understand that them intervening would have terrible repercussions for us at school.

I listened to this via audio and highly recommend it. There are different narrators for Joe and Ravi, and the voice actor for Ravi was spectacular - it was great to be able to hear things in his accent, particularly with the dialogue around mispronouncing his name.

This was a stunning contemporary middle grade that really hit home, and I’m so glad it exists!