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According to Plan

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Brief Description
The Plan: 1. Do the best you can at school. 2. Work at Dollars City to save money. 3. Edit school magazine. 4. Go to University of Kentucky with Maddie. Mal Flowers lives by The Plan. It's the only thing that keeps their ADHD brain from... Read More
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The Plan:

1. Do the best you can at school.

2. Work at Dollars City to save money.

3. Edit school magazine.

4. Go to University of Kentucky with Maddie.

Mal Flowers lives by The Plan. It's the only thing that keeps their ADHD brain from spiralling. But when the school magazine gets cancelled, The Plan starts falling apart.

Enter Emerson Pike: radiant, carefree and the total opposite of Mal's carefully controlled world. Her idea? Go rogue and launch an underground zine - unofficial, unapproved, and utterly terrifying.

With no other option, Mal agrees. But as MixxedMedia is born and sparks begin to fly both on and off the page, can Mal learn that not everything in life has to go according to plan?

Praise for According to Plan:

'Warm, witty, and wonderfully queer' Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys

'An absolute delight' Crystal Maldonado, author of Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

'Christen Randall proves to be one of the best queer storytellers of our time, bar none' Jonny Garza Villa, award-winning author of Canto Contigo

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782694489

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Children's Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 416

About the Author

Christen Randall (she/they) is a queer, fat, neurodiverse author of queer, fat, neurodiverse books. When they're not writing joyful stories for the next generation of geeky gay kids, you can find them working at their local library branch or at home planning all the D&D campaigns they'll run one day, they swear. Christen lives in Covington, Kentucky. You can find them on most social media @bycrandall. According to Plan is their second novel, The No-Girlfriend Rule is also available from Pushkin Children's.

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