There's a Badge for That - Softcover

Moring, Relly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1999242505 ISBN 13: 9781999242503

Publisher: Sol Books, 2025

Synopsis

With breathtaking scenery and the chance to forge new friendships, Camp Sweet Clover, nestled in the woods of eastern Ontario, provides campers with a summer haven. Sixteen-year-old Piper is enjoying an escape from reality when she receives a phone call from home-a home she can never return to-that leads her to make a drastic decision. Her friend Melody, 15, puts her own emotional well-being on the line and reaches out to help. Melody's quick thinking saves Piper's life, but doing so shakes her to her core.

Follow the girls in this hard-hitting, analogue coming-of-age story as Melody questions her strategically planned future, and Piper continuously fights to create a future she isn't convinced she deserves. The turmoil of the summer of 1994 follows them into that future when, years later, they find themselves back on camp soil, along with their found family, reconnecting to a time that neither of them is ready to admit no longer exists.

Content Warnings: domestic violence, suicide, sexual assault.

About this title

About the Author

Relly Moring is a young adult author of hard-hitting, queer, contemporary novels. They are the partner of a lumberjack math-whiz, and the parent of three feral children, but they've also been a postpartum doula, an axe-throwing coach, a photographer, a babywearing educator, a music journalist, a nightclub drink-slinger, and an artisan of magickal spell jars and other witchy wares your parents would condemn. They do their best writing in impossible circumstances, like amid a worldwide pandemic while homeschooling their children, battling chronic illnesses, and grieving loved ones, all at once. Relly has a penchant for platonic soulmates and writes characters with turbulent histories and sunshiny story arcs. There are a few hills they will die on, but you can pry the Oxford comma from their cold, dead hands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sol Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999242505
• ISBN 13: 9781999242503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274