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Chronically Dolores

By Maya Van Wagenen

By Maya Van Wagenen

By Maya Van Wagenen

By Maya Van Wagenen

By Maya Van Wagenen

By Maya Van Wagenen

By Maya Van Wagenen
Read by Victoria Villarreal and Maya Van Wagenen

By Maya Van Wagenen
Read by Victoria Villarreal and Maya Van Wagenen

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Mar 25, 2025 | ISBN 9780147512550 | Young Adult

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Mar 26, 2024 | ISBN 9780525426820 | Young Adult

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Mar 26, 2024 | ISBN 9780698153424 | Young Adult

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Mar 26, 2024 | 526 Minutes | Young Adult

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    About Chronically Dolores

    Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores’s story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair. Now in paperback!

    Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn’t life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life.

    Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative partnership. Beautiful, talented Terpsichore will help Dolores win back her ex-best friend, Shae. And Dolores will convince Terpsichore’s mom that her daughter has the social skills to survive public school. It seems like a foolproof plan, but Dolores isn’t always a reliable narrator, and her choices may put her in danger of committing an unforgivable betrayal.

    About Chronically Dolores

    Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award, for excellence in portraying the disability experience!

    Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores’s story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair.

    “A striking fiction debut.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
    “An insightful, funny, and realistic coming-of-age story.” —Kirkus

    Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn’t life-threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life.

    Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative partnership. Beautiful, talented Terpsichore will help Dolores win back her ex–best friend, Shae. And Dolores will convince Terpsichore’s mom that her daughter has the social skills to survive public school. It seems like a foolproof plan, but Dolores isn’t always a reliable narrator, and her choices may put her in danger of committing an unforgivable betrayal.

    About Chronically Dolores

    Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award, for excellence in portraying the disability experience!

    Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores’s story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair.

    “A striking fiction debut.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
    “An insightful, funny, and realistic coming-of-age story.” —Kirkus

    Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn’t life-threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life.

    Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative partnership. Beautiful, talented Terpsichore will help Dolores win back her ex–best friend, Shae. And Dolores will convince Terpsichore’s mom that her daughter has the social skills to survive public school. It seems like a foolproof plan, but Dolores isn’t always a reliable narrator, and her choices may put her in danger of committing an unforgivable betrayal.

    About Chronically Dolores

    Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award, for excellence in portraying the disability experience!

    Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores’s story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair.

    “A striking fiction debut.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
    “An insightful, funny, and realistic coming-of-age story.” —Kirkus

    Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn’t life-threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life.

    Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative partnership. Beautiful, talented Terpsichore will help Dolores win back her ex–best friend, Shae. And Dolores will convince Terpsichore’s mom that her daughter has the social skills to survive public school. It seems like a foolproof plan, but Dolores isn’t always a reliable narrator, and her choices may put her in danger of committing an unforgivable betrayal.

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    About Maya Van Wagenen

    Maya Van Wagenen lives in Georgia with her partner and their many pets. Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award for Best Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience, Maya’s second book and first novel, Chronically Dolores, is inspired by her… More about Maya Van Wagenen

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    About Maya Van Wagenen

    Maya Van Wagenen lives in Georgia with her partner and their many pets. Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award for Best Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience, Maya’s second book and first novel, Chronically Dolores, is inspired by her… More about Maya Van Wagenen

    About Maya Van Wagenen

    Maya Van Wagenen lives in Georgia with her partner and their many pets. Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award for Best Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience, Maya’s second book and first novel, Chronically Dolores, is inspired by her… More about Maya Van Wagenen

    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Paperback | $12.99
    Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers
    Mar 25, 2025 | 320 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780147512550

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Hardcover | $18.99
    Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers
    Mar 26, 2024 | 320 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780525426820

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers
    Mar 26, 2024 | 320 Pages | Young Adult | ISBN 9780698153424

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Mar 26, 2024 | 526 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780593793886

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    Praise

    Praise for Chronically Dolores

    Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award, for excellence in portraying the disability experience!

    A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
    A NYPL Best Book of the Year

    “Van Wagenen’s fiction debut is a standout with both wide appeal and important, specific representation bolstered by the author’s own life.” —Booklist, starred review

    “Compassionate prose conveys the protagonists’ experiences with care and thoughtful, complex characterizations approachably highlight life’s ambiguity.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

    “An insightful, funny, and realistic coming-of-age story.” —Kirkus


    Praise for Maya Van Wagenen’s Popular

    YALSA Award Winner for Excellence in Nonfiction
    New York Times Bestseller

    “I was inspired by her journey…. Maybe if I had read Popular when I was [Van Wagenen’s] age, it could have saved me from a world of hurt, or at least put that world in perspective.” —Maude Apatow for the New York Times Book Review

    “Everyone’s happiness project looks different, and I was utterly charmed by Maya Van Wagenen’s honest, funny, and thought-provoking account of her efforts to become ‘popular.’” —Gretchen Rubin, #1 bestselling author of The Happiness Project

    Awards

    Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Books SELECTION 2024

    Schneider Family Book Award AWARD 2025

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