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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Yay for libraries and librarians, yay for books that tackle hard subjects like anxiety, yay for parents who are unreservedly on their kid's side without helicoptering them. June's relationship with Hector was a bit odd, and I guess I don't understand why Sharika has plenty of extra money to spend on a library salary, but June's mom does not. (I found the scene in the wig shop cringy on several levels). It's a nice book with a nice message. It falls down a little on close inspection, but on the whole it's a good one. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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HTML:From the acclaimed author of Tune It Out and Roll with It comes a "needed, hopeful" (Booklist) middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one life-changing summer. Twelve-year-old June Delancey is kicking summer off with a bang. She shaves her head and sets two goals: she will beat her anxiety and be the lion she knows she can be, instead of the mouse everyone sees. And she and her single mama will own their power as fierce, independent females. With the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-citing soccer star who believes in June even when she doesn't believe in herself, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true. But when her anxiety becomes too much, everything begins to fall apart. It's going to take more than a haircut and some flowers to set things right. It's going to take courage and friends and watermelon pie. Forget second chances. This is the summer of new beginnings. No library descriptions found. |
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