Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the ARC.
April and Zee are best friends and are looking forward to turning 12. April wants to be a professional drummer and Zee is a prodigy violinist. When Zee starts to attend a special school, it begins a chain of events that will change April in ways she never imagined.
This middle-grade novel in verse tugs at your heartstrings. The main character experiences loss, finding out a new friend is in trouble, her parent beginning a new relationship, helping a neighbor in need, and growing in ways she never imagined. Langley paints a setting of real community and chosen family in her novel. I loved the tender and compassionate way the author tackled such serious topics and themes as depression, death, addiction, domestic violence, mourning, single parenting, a gay parent dating, and foster care.
Language: None
Sex: None, April's mom begins dating a woman
Violence: April's friend is in a home with addiction and domestic violence, violent acts are not described.
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