ISBN: 9781534486027
Editorial: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Autor: Sumner, Jamie
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 208
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: 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.Review"With a sensitive hand, Sumner offers a realistic portrayal of how those around you, therapy, and medication can all work together to help an anxious mind. . . A needed, hopeful book for middle-grade readers on friendship, mental health, and acceptance." -- Booklist"In a love letter to libraries told in June’s thoughtful voice, Sumner vividly traces one adolescent’s anxiety and its attendant difficulties."-- Publishers WeeklyAbout the AuthorJamie Sumner is the author of Roll with It, Time to Roll, Tune It Out, One Kid’s Trash, and The Summer of June. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids. She is also the mother of a son with cerebral palsy and has written extensively about parenting a child with special needs. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at Jamie-Sumner.com.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Chapter 1: Behold 1 BeholdI AM A WONDER TO behold.At least, that’s what Mom said when she saw the clumps of hair on the bathroom floor. She took one look at my bald head and my bare feet itching under all that shed weight and announced, “Junebug, you are a wonder to behold.” And then she pried the pink Bic razor from my fingers and took it to her own head. That’s the thing about Mom. She is a woman of action.Her dark waves fell and mixed with my blond ones, and altogether we made an unruly mess. But it was a mess on the floor and not on our heads, so that was that.She was not a wonder to behold. Honestly.All that hair had been hiding bumps and divots and a scalp so white it was almost gray. She scratched at it with her glittery purple nails, exploring the whole craggy moonscape.“Mom, you look sensational,” I said, our brown eyes hooking on each other in the mirror. It was not true. Sometimes you have to tell a little lie to call a bigger truth into being. This summer I am summoning all our truths.Truth #1: I will not be the girl who pulls out her own hair because she’s running from the anxious thoughts in her head.Truth #2: Mom and I will own our power as fierce, independent females.Just because her boyfriend, Keith, dumped her last week does not mean Mom has to turn into the lonesome librarian. He wasn’t even supposed to be her boyfriend in the first place. He stopped by to try to sell us insurance and stayed three years! We can be happy without him. Together. On our own.Here’s Truth #3 (the secret truth): I am tired of being the nervous mouse girl who is scared all the time and runs from everything. And I’m sick of waiting for the right things to happen. This summer, I am going to be a lion. And I will make happily ever after come to me.Ten minutes later:I stand in front of my dresser mirror and stare at my “melon,” as Mom calls it. I hate my hair. Mom lied. I am no wonder. I look like a visitor from another planet. I feel like that all the time, b
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