A01=Jean Heilprin Diehl
Age Group_Ages 9-11
Age Group_Ages 9-11
Author_Jean Heilprin Diehl
autism
automatic-update
babysitting
books about depression
books about divorce
books about summer
Books about swimming
car accident
Category1=Kids
Category=YFN
chapter book
children's book
coming of age
COP=United States
debut author
Delivery_Pre-order
disability
disability lit
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eq_childrens
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_teenage-young-adult
friendship
growing up
Language_English
middle grade
new friends
PA=Reprinting
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
science fair
softlaunch
summertime
swim team
Product details
- ISBN 9781452163352
- Dimensions: 143 x 207mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2018
- Publisher: Chronicle Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 9-11
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When Alice's dad moves out, leaving her with her troubled mother, she does the only thing that feels right: she retreats to her family's old Renaissance tent in the backyard, determined to live there until her dad comes home. In an attempt to keep at least one part of her summer from changing, Alice focuses on her quest to swim freestyle fast enough to get on her swim team's record board. But summers contain multitudes, and soon Alice meets an odd new friend, Harriet, whose obsession with the school's science fair is equal only to her conviction that Alice's best stroke is backstroke, not freestyle. Most unexpected of all is an unusual babysitting charge, Piper, who is mute—until Alice hears her speak. A funny and honest middle-grade novel, this sharply observed depiction of family, friendship, and Alice's determination to prove herself—as a babysitter, as a friend, as a daughter, as a person—rings loud and true.
J. H. Diehl has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop; this is her first novel. She lives in Maryland.|J. H. Diehl has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop; this is her first novel. She lives in Maryland.
