Amelia Gray Is Almost Okay
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Publisher Description
When you can choose to be anyone, how do you know who you really are? From the author of Better You Than Me and I Speak Boy comes another fun and relatable book about new experiences and how staying true to yourself is the best way to be okay.
Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has changed schools thirty-nine times (!!!) because of her dad’s job, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for making friends. But that’s okay. Amelia loves her “life on the go” with Dad and their adorable supermutt, Biscotti. She’s been in enough middle schools to know that friendships are messy, and who needs that?
But when her dad announces that he wants to stay in their new town for the whole summer—maybe even forever—Amelia realizes she’s going to have to do the one thing she’s never had to do: fit in.
So she gives herself not one but three total makeovers, to try out a few personalities and hopefully find her “thing.” Is she Amie, a confident track star? Mellie, a serious journalist? Or Lia, a bold theater kid?
Juggling three identities is hard, and Amelia soon finds herself caught in the kind of friendship drama she has always managed to avoid. Yet despite her best efforts, she still can’t answer the most important question of all: Who is the real Amelia Gray?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As 12-year-old Amelia Gray, who reads as white, finishes up sixth grade at her 39th school, she's ready for yet another four-week stay in a new place with her single father, who travels the country revamping hotels. Happy with their unattached "life on the go" and their "supermutt" Biscotti, she is stunned when her father announces that they'll stay in their next destination—Summerville, N.Y.—for an entire summer. He also challenges her to join an activity for the duration, and promises that if she sticks with it, he'll secure the thing she wants most: a dog DNA test for Biscotti. Flummoxed by the realization that she lacks a "Thing" of her own, Amelia reinvents herself as three separate people, each with a different name, to find out which persona suits her best. As Amie the "track superstar," Mellie the journalist, and Lia the performer, she makes friends—and enemies—and digs herself into a deepening pit of small-town drama as she tries to keep her identities separate and her father seems to put down roots. Aptly literalizing the perennial theme of reinventing oneself, this light comedy of errors from Brody (I Speak Boy) features laugh-aloud shenanigans and tender insights. Ages 10–up.
