"A heartfelt tale of an exceptional girl." --BCCB
"Poignant...heartwarming." --School Library Journal
Fish in a Tree meets The Thing About Jellyfish in this heartfelt
middle grade debut about long-buried secrets, the power of memory, and
the bond between a girl and her grandmother.
All Lulu Carter wants is to be seen. But her parents are lost in their
own worlds, and Lulu has learned the hard way that having something as
rare as HSAM--the ability to remember almost every single moment in her
life--won't make you popular in school.
At least Lulu has Gram, who knows the truth about Lulu's memory and
loves her all the more for it. But Gram has started becoming
absentminded, and the more lost she gets, the more she depends on
Lulu...until Lulu realizes her memory holds the very key to fixing
Gram's forgetfulness. Once Lulu learns that trauma can cause amnesia,
all she needs to do to cure Gram is hunt down that painful moment in
Gram's life.
With her friends Olivia and Max, Lulu digs into Gram's mysterious past.
But they soon realize some secrets should stay buried, and Lulu wonders
if she ever knew Gram at all. It's up to Lulu to uncover the truth
before the only person who truly sees her slips away.