Netflix has ordered a second season of My Life With the Walter Boys, its series adaptation of Ali Novak’s young adult novel, Deadline reports.
Novak’s book, published in 2014 by Sourcebooks Fire, follows Jackie, a teen girl who moves to a horse ranch with 12 children after her parents die in an accident.
The series adaptation stars Nikki Rodriguez as Jackie, alongside Noah LaLonde, Ashby Gentry, Johnny Link, and Connor Stanhope. The first season debuted on Netflix on Dec. 7 and garnered more than 12 million views in its first week.
Melanie Halsall, the showrunner for the series, told Deadline, “It’s been incredible. Phenomenal, actually. I think the audience response has just been so overwhelming and enthusiastic and positive. We couldn’t have hoped for better audience reaction, really.”
Halsall also said she wants the writers of the show to “spread our wings” for the second season, while “still being true to Ali’s original story.”
“I was always thinking that [it] could be a long-running, returning series,” Halsall said. “That’s one of the reasons I love the book so much.”
Fans of Novak might get the chance to see more of her books adapted to the small screen. Deadline reports that iGeneration Studios, which produces the My Life With the Walter Boys, is developing a new show based on Novak’s Heartbreakers Chronicles, which began in 2015 with The Heartbreakers and continued two years later with Paper Hearts.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
