High Five Books

High Five Books We’re an indie community bookstore + creativity space for all families in Florence, MA.

🐞🐛🐜🪲 These two buggy buddies are insect book aficionados! Thank you for coming to sign your picture books, and !
05/28/2026

🐞🐛🐜🪲 These two buggy buddies are insect book aficionados! Thank you for coming to sign your picture books, and !

High fives for author Rebecca Bendheim, who stopped by to sign copies of her beautiful middle grade novel WHEN YOU'RE BR...
05/26/2026

High fives for author Rebecca Bendheim, who stopped by to sign copies of her beautiful middle grade novel WHEN YOU'RE BRAVE ENOUGH, while on her way up to Q***r Kidlit Camp!

Thank you, Rebecca! (And yes, friends, we ship!)

—ABOUT 'WHEN YOU'RE BRAVE ENOUGH'—
A heartfelt, gorgeously written debut middle grade novel about best friends, first crushes, and coming out--perfect for fans of Kyle Lukoff and Jake Maia Arlow.

Before she moved from Austin to Rhode Island, everybody knew Lacey as one half of an inseparable duo: Lacey-and-Grace, best friends since they were toddlers. Grace and her moms were practically family. But at school, being lumped together with overeager, worm-obsessed, crushes-on-everyone Grace meant Lacey never quite fit in--and that's why at her new middle school, Lacey plans to reinvent herself. This time, she's going to be cool. She's going to be normal.

At first, everything seems to go as planned. Lacey makes new friends right away, she finds a rabbi to help her prepare for the bat mitzvah that got deprioritized by her parents in the chaos of the move, and she even gets cast in the lead role of the eighth-grade musical. Which is when things start to get stressful, because it turns out the students at her new school have a long-standing, unofficial tradition: No matter what the show is, in the final performance, the leads always kiss for real.

Lacey's never kissed anyone before--she's not even sure she's ever had a crush. And in Bye, Bye, Birdie, there are a few different co-lead kiss possibilities for Lacey to choose from. There's confident, cocky Andre. There's sweet, friendly Jaden. And then there's the other new girl at school: dryly funny, impossibly cool Violet.

But while her new friends and older sister create whiteboard wall charts and botched field trip schemes to help her decide, suddenly Lacey can't stop thinking about Grace, who she was so sure she wanted to leave behind. When Grace comes back into her life, Lacey needs to decide if she's brave enough to be who she really is, in front of the person who matters most.

Join Affirmations Book Club TONIGHT (ages 8-12) from 6-7 pm at High Five Books Today we will discuss Upstaged by Robin E...
05/25/2026

Join Affirmations Book Club TONIGHT (ages 8-12) from 6-7 pm at High Five Books
Today we will discuss Upstaged by Robin Easter

Affirmations is a our casual, monthly book clubs for trans, gender-expansive, and nonbinary youth. This book club is the first of its kind for Translate Gender and High Five Books, and we couldn’t be more excited!

Please register via email at [email protected]

TONIGHT! Join us from 6-7 pm at High Five Books for Affirmations - our trans youth book club! We will be reading Beetle...
05/25/2026

TONIGHT! Join us from 6-7 pm at High Five Books for Affirmations - our trans youth book club! We will be reading Beetle & the Chimera Carnival by Aliza Layne.

You do not need to read the book to join our interesting discussions!

To join our monthly book club, please register at [email protected]

🌈 Happy Saturday! Even gray days are great for Crooked Stick Pops!Our team is here 10am-6pm today to help you choose bo...
05/23/2026

🌈 Happy Saturday! Even gray days are great for Crooked Stick Pops!

Our team is here 10am-6pm today to help you choose books AND treats for the long weekend. See you soon!

We'll be closed on Monday, May 26, so please plan your visits before *and* after! ✨ Otherwise, we're open 10am-6pm, Mon-...
05/21/2026

We'll be closed on Monday, May 26, so please plan your visits before *and* after! ✨ Otherwise, we're open 10am-6pm, Mon-Sat.

05/21/2026

✨🛠 How do you decorate a dressing room for Mercury Stardust? With glitter hand tools, natch.

Corrie and one of our special readers did a spectacular job for her last weekend at the Freedom to Be Ourselves benefit for Transhealth, which raised more than $50K! We're so lucky to have their gender-affirming healthcare in our community!

Happy New Book Tuesday!! It's always a great day when our friend @ has a new book in the world and today is one of those...
05/19/2026

Happy New Book Tuesday!! It's always a great day when our friend @ has a new book in the world and today is one of those days! If you'd like to hear her read LYDIA LOVE BUGS live and in person, come to our very buggy storytime, on Saturday, May 23, from 10-10:30am! Storytime is free and no registration is required to attend.



ID far away picture of the new book shelf and close up images of book covers

Address

141 N. Main Street
Florence, MA
01062

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

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+14132000197

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