Emily Post is the role model of eighth grader and future influencer Emily Lawrence. Things are on track for her stellar YouHappy social media account when the principal announces their school will be visited by one of Emily's favorite social media presences: Asha Jamil. And then Amalie joins their school, and their friend circle and seems to have everything going for her that Emily suddenly needs. until the climate march, which is cancelled from their school podcast since it conflicts with the principal's relationship with a major energy corporation who is planning to build their school a new auditorium. As Emily navigates tricky friendships and finding her voice to take a stand on an issue that really moves her, she consults her trusty Emily Post who has no advice for middle school in the 21st century. The theme that weaves it way throughout is finding your voice and taking a stand.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for a chance to read this digital galley.

Enjoyable read about an 8th grader, Emily Laurence, who is an influencer and runs her school's podcast. Emily draws inspiration from Emily Post, a socialite in the 1920s who wrote about etiquette. There are lots of contemporary themes explored in this book, including friendship dynamics, mixed families, and social causes such as climate change and veganism.

This book will certainly appeal to grades 4-7. Emily is an enjoyable character and her struggles are realistic for this day and age.

Emily is a young, witty social influencer and the passion behind her middle school's podcast- Ceadarville Speaks. She has so many plans for the future until a new student arrives and seems to be out influenced. How will she outwit Amelia and continue her plans? Will she be able to us the Climate March to regain her spot on top?

This novel will be very appealing to the middle school audience as it includes so many themes that are so important to this demographic (e.g., social media presence, friendship, social activism, etc.). Emily will inspire her audience with her tenacity, passion and humor. This book will a great gift or addition to classroom, school and public libraries.

Thank you #NetGalley and #PenguinRandomHouse and Tanya Lloyd Kyi for the opportunity to read and share this ARC #EmilyPosts

Emily Posts
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Pub Date 06 Feb 2024
Penguin Random House Canada,Tundra Books
Children's Fiction


Penguin Random House Canada, Tundra Books, and Netgalley sent me a copy to review:


With this fun, school-based drama for ages 10 and up, middle school podcast advice columnist Emily Laurence stands up to the principal for a climate march. Fans of Gordon Korman and Susin Nielsen will love this.



Emily runs Cedarview Speaks - sponsored by CoastFresh! Amelie joins her eighth-grade class and dashes her plans for middle-school fame. New arrival has a lot of confidence and a knack for leading. As far as Emily's concerned, she's leading them astray.


Emily practices old-fashioned etiquette. Rather than confront Amelie, she creates a podcast about a climate march. Her story is censored by the principal. Emily gets cut from the podcast crew when she protests . . . Amelie takes her place!



Can Emily spread the word about the climate march, reclaim her place on the podcast team and expose CoastFresh's flaws? Is she able to balance her impeccable manners with 21st century activism? How will she ever work with Amelie?



In this book, Emily Posts explores social media, influence, corporate sponsorship, and the fraught waters of middle-school friendship.



I give Emily Posts five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!

I really enjoyed this middle grade take on podcasts and social justice. I appreciated how Emily and her friends faced real consequences for their attempts to bring greater awareness to climate issues, and they persevered. I also enjoyed how it focused on influencers and Emily’s desire to be an influencer, against her parents’ wishes.

Emily Posts is about a middle school girl named Emily who looks up to Emily Post and tries to use her life lessons in her own life.  To be honest, I'm not really sure what made me choose this book to review, and while it is geared towards kids it took me a bit to get through because Emily and her friends can be absolutely insufferable at times.  Yet, somehow, representation matters and I was pleased to see that her younger soon to be step brother's best friend was a wheelchair user that had cerebral palsy (and was also super sneaky!)  

Emily works on a podcast at school, but when a partnership comes from a large company with the school it seems that the climate march Emily is concerned about and wants to publicize gets shut down by her principal.  In order to distract her, they change the visit of a famous actress who was coming to the school so Emily won't try and get her friends to skip school and attend the march.

Meanwhile, there's also a new girl in school and Emily is quite a bit jealous and not so great to her.

Overall, brought me right back to middle school and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.  But it does have some good lessons about working together, standing up for what you believe in and perhaps how to go about getting what you want in the right ways so you won't get in a lot of trouble with, well, everyone.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

Eighth grader Emily is balancing school, podcast-producing duties, a new pseudo-brother and an annoyingly perfect new friend in this fast-paced middle grade novel. I loved the Emily Post quotes throughout and the pitch-perfect dramatics. This book was lots of fun with a great message, sure to be popular with tweens and librarians alike.

I enjoyed this engaging middle grade novel. I loved how the life and advice of Emily Post was woven creatively info the story of Emily Laurence, an 8th grader hoping to become a social media influencer. Emily's journey evolves from wanting to post about more superficial topics such as fashion and beauty into wanting to help make positive changes in the world, particularly in the area of climate change action. This is a fun story that also contains come great messages for middle graders about social media, environmental action, and making a difference.

I can definitely see this book being a favorite at my library. My young readers will thoroughly enjoy this book and I am definitely going to recommend this book for purchase when it is published!

The protagonist of the middle grade book, "Emily Posts" by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, is named after the 20th century author and etiquette expert Emily Post. Emily Laurence is a middle schooler, podcast producer, and aspiring social media influencer. Emily and her mother have recently moved in with her mom's fiance Richard and his 8 year old son, Ocean. Another big change in Emily's life is the arrival of a new student, Amelie, who takes away some of the limelight Emily has been accustomed to. Much of the plot of the book revolves around an upcoming celebrity visit to Emily's school, and a local climate change march. Readers will connect with issues like censorship, activism, and teen social media use that are present in the story. Overall this is a story upper elementary school age readers will enjoy reading and one that teachers, librarians, and parents will want to include in their collections.