Seventh grader Henrietta Weldon gets to switch schoolsтАФfinally! SheтАЩll be тАЬmainstreamingтАЭ into public school, leaving her special education school behind. She canтАЩt wait for her new schedule, new friends, and new classes.
HenriтАЩs dyscalculia, a learning disability that makes math challenging to process and understand, is what she expects to give her problems. What she doesnтАЩt expect is a family feud with her sister over her new friends, joining the girlsтАЩ soccer team, and discovering poetry. HenriтАЩs tutor and new friend, Vinnie, reminds her to take it slow. One problem at a time.
If Henri Weldon has twenty-four hours in a day, and she has two siblings who dislike her four new friends, two hours of soccer practice, seven hours of classes, and three hours of homework . . . she has:
A.┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬аNo free time
B.┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬аNo idea how to make everyone happy
C.┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬а┬аNo time to figure it out, Henri Weldon!
Tanita S. Davis is the award-winning author of six novels for middle grade and young adult readers, including Serena Says, Peas and Carrots, Happy Families, and MareтАЩs War, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and earned her a nomination for the NAACP Image Award. She grew up in California and was so chatty as a kid that her mother begged her to тАЬjust write it down.тАЭ Now sheтАЩs back in California, doing her best to keep writing it all down. Visit her at tanitasdavis.com.