Judy Blume meets Jacqueline Woodson in this powerful and sweetly emotional coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world, from the author of How High the Moon. This was supposed to be the best year ever for eleven-year-old Stevie Morrison.

But instead, her life seems determined to turn itself upside down. First of all, her parents can’t stop fighting – and they decide to move the family to a totally new apartment, in a totally new part of town, which means a totally new middle school for Stevie. On top of that, her best friend, Jennifer, is acting weird.

She won’t return Stevie’s phone calls, and apparently her new best friends are a bunch of mean girls. The final straw comes with the arrival of Stevie’s teenage cousin Naomi – sent down in disgrace from Boston (though no one will tell Stevie why). But with Naomi comes an exciting glimpse of a world Stevie hasn’t paid much attention to before: one of Cleopatra Jones movies, women’s liberation and an intriguing-sounding group called the Black Panthers.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2023
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children’s UK
Languages: English
Pages: 320
ISBN 13: 9780241346914
ISBN 10: 0241346916