Cringe Club: Selected for Bookbuzz Secondary 2026

About this book

Welcome to a new group chat: ‘Cringe Club’!  

Kennedy has had the worst first day at her new school and needs to vent to her friends. They’ve all just started secondary school, but since her parents split up and her mum moved her and her older sister to a whole new city, Kennedy is doing it alone, with her friends hundreds of miles away.  

Making new friends isn’t easy for everyone and things definitely don’t go entirely to plan for Kennedy over the coming days and weeks, as she reveals all through phone messages and voice notes in the Cringe Club chat. Her old friends Liv and Devon are trying to branch out at their new school too, often with equally funny and cringe-worthy, embarrassing results.  

Dance-loving Devon is determined to get good at football; Liv has a crush on a boy who she has dubbed ‘Fit Panini’; and Kennedy has a triple mission to (a) find a friend, (b) escape the terrible new nickname she has acquired, and (c) guilt her mum into getting her a kitten.  

A hilarious, light-hearted and utterly relatable school, friendship and family drama story written in a really fun and readable format.