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A beautifully written middl- grade novel-in-verse by award-winning Irish author Meg Grehan about a young girl reckoning with anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand—including her feelings about her friend Chloe.
11-year-old Stevie is an avid reader and she knows a lot of things about a lot of things. But these are the things she’d like to know the most:
1. The ocean and all the things that live there and why it’s so scary
2. The stars and all the constellations
3. How phones work
4. What happened to Princess Anastasia
5. Knots
Knowing things makes Stevie feel safe, powerful, and in control should anything bad happen. And with the help of her mom, she is finding the tools to manage her anxiety.
But there’s one something Stevie doesn’t know, one thing she wants to understand above everything else, and one thing she isn’t quite ready to share with her mom: the fizzy feeling she gets in her chest when she looks at her friend, Chloe. What does it mean and why isn’t she ready to talk about it?
In this poetic exploration of identity and anxiety, Stevie must confront her fears to find inner freedom all while discovering it is our connections with others that make us stronger.
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“Narrator Heather O’Neill’s lilting brogue and thoughtful pacing preserve the flow of the verse without sacrificing the confessional tone of Stevie’s voice. Moreover, O’Neill imbues Stevie’s naïveté with such poignant urgency that even the most jaded tween listeners will be hard-pressed not to root for her. A sweet coming-out story, narrated with sensitivity and tenderness.”
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“A heartwarming and tear-provoking coming-of-age novel, brimming with empathy and a child’s imagination.”
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About Heather O’Neill
Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her previous works include The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads, as well as Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels, which were shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. O’Neill has also won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award.