About This Book
Reach for this book when your middle-schooler is feeling overshadowed by a sibling or senses a growing, unspoken distance between their parents. Set in the 1960s, it follows thirteen-year-old Liza as she navigates the sharp sting of being the plain, overlooked sister while her parents' marriage begins to fracture. It is a deeply sensitive look at the interior life of a young girl who uses writing to process her world. Parents will appreciate how it validates the complex feelings of jealousy and the quiet anxiety of a changing home life without offering easy, artificial solutions. It is best suited for children ages 10 to 14 who are ready for a realistic, slightly melancholic, but ultimately empowering journey toward self-identity.
