#1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins \'s poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging.
Ellen lives with her extended family, one brilliant German shepherd, a retired rescue cat, and two ponds (not pounds) of koi in the eastern shadow of the Northern Nevada Sierra..
With this book, she is honored to enter the realm of middle-grade fiction.
About author(s): Ellen Hopkins is a former journalist and the award-winning author of twenty nonfiction books for young readers, fourteen bestselling young-adult novels (including The Crank Trilogy, Burned, Impulse, and Tricks series), and four novels for adult readers.
Told in verse from the alternating perspectives of Hannah and Cal, this is a story of two cousins who are more alike than they realize and the family they both want to save.
Humor and stories might be his defense mechanism, but if Cal doesn\'t let his walls down soon, he might push away the very people who are trying their best to love him.
For his part, Cal is trying his hardest to fit in, but not everyone is as appreciative of his unique sense of humor and storytelling gifts as he is.
She knows that Cal went through a lot after his mom died and she is trying to be patient, but most days Hannah just wishes Cal never moved in.
Nothing is how it used to be.
Cal tells half-truths and tall tales, pranks Hannah constantly, and seems to be the reason her parents are fighting more and more.
But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes.
She has two supportive parents, she\'s popular at school, and she\'s been killing it at gymnastics.
For the most part, Hannah\'s life is just how she wants it. #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins \'s poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging
