Named an NPR Best Book of 2018 Named to the Bank Street List for Best Children\'s Books of 2019 Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List Named to the Maine\'s Student Book Award List Named to the Rhode Island Middle School Book Award 2020 List​ 2020 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award Nominee Some people can do their homework.
Visit her online at www.annbradenbooks.com..
She lives in southern Vermont with her husband, two children, and two insatiable cats named Boomer and Justice.
Ann is the co-host of the children\'s book podcast, "Lifelines: Books that Bridge the Divide," along with Pakistani American author Saadia Faruqi, and is a former middle school teacher.
She also founded the Local Love Brigade, which now has chapters all over the country sending love postcards to those who are facing hate.
She founded GunSenseVT, a grassroots group focused on championing the common ground on the issue of guns in Vermont, which recently helped pass landmark gun violence prevention legislation.
About the Author: Ann Braden writes books about kids struggling to find their voice amidst the realities of life.
Can Zoey find the courage to speak up, even if it means risking the most stable home she\'s ever had? This moving debut novel explores the cultural divides around class and the gun debate through the eyes of one girl, living on the edges of society, trying to find her way forward.
Even though Zoey resists participating, debate ultimately leads her to see things in a new way: her mom\'s relationship with Lenny, Fuchsia\'s situation, and her own place in this town of people who think they\'re better than her.
Unfortunately, she\'s not totally invisible, and one of her teachers forces her to join the debate club.
Powerful protective defenses.
Incredible camouflage ability and steady, unblinking vision.
Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus: eight arms to do eight things at once.
Her only friend Fuchsia has her own issues, and since they\'re in an entirely different world than the rich kids, it\'s best if no one notices them.
At school, Zoey tries to stay under the radar.
At least there\'s Lenny, her mom\'s boyfriend--they all get to live in his nice, clean trailer.
Not that her mom seems to appreciate it.
Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor.
Some people have other things they\'ve got to do.
Some people get to have crushes on boys.
Named an NPR Best Book of 2018 Named to the Bank Street List for Best Children\'s Books of 2019 Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List Named to the Maine\'s Student Book Award List Named to the Rhode Island Middle School Book Award 2020 List​ 2020 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award Nominee Some people can do their homework
