Perfect as back-to-school reading, especially for anxious kids, this novel explores friendship, academic anxiety, and what it means to be special, as it "offers young readers a hopeful way of looking at failure and mistakes..." according to The New York...
Eleven-year-old Ash McNulty is one of the "gifted and talented" kids at her school, spending most of her day in a special class with a few other advanced students. As the end of fifth grade rolls around, she should be on top of the world. According to everyone, she's going...