# What If It's Us

**Author:** Becky Albertalli
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 443
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780062868671`
**ISBN-10:** `0062868675`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/what-if-its-us
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- gays
- fate and fatalism
- dating (social customs)
- dating (social customs), fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Maryland — [source: Maryland Association of School Librarians — Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, 2021 winner (High School)](https://www.maslmd.org/past-winners)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Maryland — [source: Maryland Association of School Librarians — Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, 2021 winner (High School)](https://www.maslmd.org/past-winners)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Maryland — [source: Maryland Association of School Librarians — Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, 2021 winner (High School)](https://www.maslmd.org/past-winners)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Maryland — [source: Maryland Association of School Librarians — Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, 2021 winner (High School)](https://www.maslmd.org/past-winners)

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