From Tony Award-winning actress Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz, an
inspiring and heartfelt middle-grade novel about a theater-loving girl
who uses a wheelchair for mobility and her quest to defy
expectations--and gravity--now in paperback
Thirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks,
her best friend Chloe, and competing on her wheelchair racing team, the
Zoomers, to name a few. But there's one thing she's absolutely OBSESSED
with: MUSICALS! From Hamilton to Les Mis, there's not a cast album
she hasn't memorized and belted along to. She's never actually been in a
musical though, or even seen an actor who uses a wheelchair for mobility
on stage. Would someone like Nat ever get cast?
But when Nat's family moves from California to New Jersey, Nat stumbles
upon auditions for a kids' production of Wicked, one of her favorite
musicals ever! And she gets into the ensemble! The other cast members
are super cool and inclusive (well, most of them)--especially Malik, the
male lead and cutest boy Nat's ever seen. But when things go awry a week
before opening night, will Nat be able to cast her fears and
insecurities aside and "Defy Gravity" in every sense of the song title?