Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help) 2021: The Best Children's Books of the Year.2021-22: South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards - Nominee.2021 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults.In an interview, Iacopelli highlights the importance of accuracy in her sports fiction saying, 'what I worked on the most was making sure the gymnasts were portrayed as realistically as possible, in and out of the gym.' Awards and Nominations Touted for its, 'detailed descriptions of training sessions and step-by-step accounts of gymnastics routines combine with #MeToo considerations and dramatic friendship shifts to create a fraught behind-the-scenes look at the lives of young Olympic hopefuls' by Publishers Weekly, and 'the deft balancing of female solidarity and ambition is one of many pleasing things about this book another is how vividly the gymnastics routines come to life, playing out as though on a screen and inspiring the same level of breath-holding, wincing and cheering as the real Olympics might' by the Irish Times, it was then named to the 2021 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults list, the Texas Library Association's TAYSHAS Reading list and was a finalist for the South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards.

Out of Our League (with Dahlia Adler) (2023, Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan) Ĭritical reception Break the Fall īitchMedia called Break the Fall one of 25 YA Novels Feminists Should Read in 2020 and named it one of 20 Young Adult Releases to Watch in 2020 due to Iacopelli's 'serious sports young adult chops.' Kirkus Reviews cited it as 'an uplifting quest for Olympic victory' Buzzfeed recommend it to readers, 'who want to brush against the dark underbelly of the gymnastics world.Finding Her Edge (2022, Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House).Break the Fall (2020, Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House).

In 2017, Iacopelli was named a 'badass librarian' by the Huffington Post. In addition to writing, she serves as a library media specialist on the East End of Long Island. in Adolescence Education and English Literature and holds a Masters of Library and Information Science from Long Island University. Jennifer Iacopelli was born in Queens, New York and spent her adolescence in Commack on Long Island.

Game. Set. Match. by Jennifer Iacopelli