In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles
depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life when
his older sister is in crisis.
Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are
confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to
bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting
pretty strange, even though Noah thought she'd been doing better ever
since the Thing They Don't Talk About. The only place he really feels at
peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. As it becomes
clear through Emma's ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she's
not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was
hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. In an affecting and
realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the
complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the
face of a family crisis.