Caprice
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Publisher Description
From the groundbreaking author of Tyrell, an astonishing middle-grade novel about a girl overcoming the secrets and abuse of her past.
This should be an exciting time for Caprice. She has been offered a place at the school of her dreams, where she's just had a fantastic summer. But this great opportunity coincides with a lot of internal doubt and the disturbing news that her long-estranged grandmother has fallen ill and may be near death. As Caprice tries to figure out her future, she is pulled back toward her past, and the abuse she endured from her uncle when she was little -- an abuse she's never told anyone about.
With extreme sensitivity and honesty for middle-grade readers, Coe Booth has written a painful but ultimately healing novel about finding support from your parents and friends, articulating your truth, and choosing your own path.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After spending seven weeks in Upstate New York, attending a summer leadership program at prestigious boarding school Ainsley International, rising eighth grader Caprice is invited to continue her education there on a full scholarship, an opportunity her family wouldn't otherwise be able to afford. But arriving back at the Newark, N.J., community center where she usually spends summers, she contemplates staying with her parents and close hometown friends, including bestie Nicole, who has become interested in makeup and boys. When the family receives news that Caprice's maternal grandmother's health is failing in Baltimore, they face a long-standing rift ("Grandma's on one side with all my aunts, uncles, and cousins. And Mom's on the other side with just me and Dad") and wounds around trauma that Caprice experienced as a younger child. Alternating Caprice's first-person narration with lines of her poetry ("Sometimes it's only your body that remembers/ all the details nobody else knows"), Booth (Kinda Like Brothers) offers a thoughtful framework for exploring sexual abuse and generational family secrets. Ages 9–12.
