About This Book
Reach for this book when your teenager feels misunderstood or is withdrawing into silence due to family instability. Cornelia is a quiet girl with a stutter who has spent her life acting as the 'fixer' for her neglectful mother. When she is suddenly left with her eccentric Aunt Agatha in a rural fixer-upper, she must learn to stop managing others and start finding her own voice. This poignant novel explores themes of hidden intelligence, the weight of parental abandonment, and the slow process of building self-worth. It is a gentle yet profound choice for readers who feel like outsiders or those navigating the complexities of kinship care and learning differences. You might choose it to spark a conversation about the difference between being 'silent' and having nothing to say.
