It urges us to make space in our hearts-and in our world-for all the forms of neurodiversity we don't yet understand." - Alyson Gerber, author of Taking Up Space, Focused, and Braced "This beautiful and important book reminds us that kids are not problems to be solved, sorted, and labeled. Pla, award-winning author of The Someday Birds Kids, teachers, parents, please read!" - Sally J. Gwendolyn's quest to understand 'What's wrong with me?' reveals there is so much right with her. "An important heart-level look inside a girl that so many other kids will surely relate to. A compassionate portrait of what a diagnosis can offer." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Carter provides searing descriptions of the school’s differing class- and gender-related expectations for more privileged, already-diagnosed Tyler and still-searching Gwendolyn. "Carter draws from her own experience of undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia in this moving, authentically told story. Martin’s Rain Reign." - Booklist (starred review) Particularly effective is the cadence of Gwendolyn’s thoughts and voice, creating a likable, realistic character that readers will gravitate to. Recommended to everyone, but particularly for those drawn to Kathryn Erskine’s Mockingbird and Ann M. "This sensitive #OwnVoices novel balances the frustration and challenges being dealt with by all the characters.
Can these Twelve Steps that cured her mother somehow cure Gwendolyn too? Critical Praise So Gwendolyn is hopeless until she remembers the one thing that helped her mother when her own life was out of control.
So Gwendolyn needs a plan, because if she doesn’t get these fifty-four things under control, she’s not going to be able to go to horse camp this summer with her half-brother, Tyler.īut Tyler can’t help her because there’s only one thing “wrong” with him: ADHD.Īnd her best friend Hettie can’t help her because there’s nothing wrong with Hettie. But Gwendolyn knows she doesn’t have just one thing wrong with her: she has fifty-four.Īt least, according to a confidential school report (that she read because she is #16.
No one can figure out what Gwendolyn Rogers’s problem is-not her mom, or her teachers, or any of the many therapists she’s seen. For fans of Alyson Gerber, Cammie McGovern, and Kathryn Erskine. From the critically acclaimed author of the ALA Notable and Charlotte Huck Honor Book Forever, or a Long, Long Time comes a moving own-voices story that shines a light on how one girl’s learning differences are neither right nor wrong…just perfectly individual.
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