Editorial Review

“This well-told story captures a pivotal life experience: What we’ve assumed was permanent, bedrock reality can shift beneath us without warning. ‘Normal’ changes. If it’s a tough lesson, it’s also liberating…. Pre-adolescent angst—funny, perplexing humiliating—is perennially fertile ground for middle-grade fiction. Holmes shows us where it comes from and where it can take us if we let it.”—Kirkus Reviews