The New Girl series follows Sarah Redmond as she goes from a chill teen with a penchant for knitting to an ambitious and high-achieving girl set on living the life of an artist, with a few adventures along the way. Did you know you could get revenge with knitting? Read the series to find out how
Always the New Girl
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Always the New Girl won several awards:
- 1st place in the National Excellence in Storytelling contest in the YA Novel category
- Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Young New Adult Fiction (17+))
- Finalist in the Book Excellence Award (Young Adult)
Binding Off finaled in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Novella)
re-launched May 13, 2026
Knitting nerd Sarah Redmond is always the new girl, never the popular one.
Moving all over the country with her flighty mom seemed to be her lot in life, but her junior year at Sierra Vista High School feels like it could be different.
She's finally on the verge of a social breakthrough.
But when she gets publicly punked at her first party, she and her new friends find a creative way to use their shared obsession with knitting to exact sweet revenge. And when their efforts lead to a lucrative business, Sarah knows she's set. But when her deadbeat dad comes back around she starts to wonder if she should try for a different life, instead of following the paths her parents have chosen. She'd always half thought her small-time knitting channel could grow into a big-time knitting channel, but maybe college as a backup plan isn't such a ridiculous idea, after all.
But is that something a girl like her can really make happen?
Binding Off is a prequel now included at the end of Always the New Girl.
In Binding Off, you get to head back to eighth grade.
Cringing yet?
Well, Sarah Redmond was, because being thirteen and unpopular was hard enough – then her mom got them kicked out of yet another boyfriend's house. And what this meant was they’d have no choice but to go live with her grandma again. But Sarah’s been uprooted before, moving around is just another part of her less-than-typical life up to this point. And it all seems worth it this time around after she meets Mateo at her new school.
But is Sarah truly ready for where this relationship could lead?