![]() "The novel offers a compassionate portrayal of anxiety's toll and a sweetly supportive mother-daughter relationship. It's going to take courage and friends and watermelon pie. It's going to take more than a haircut and some flowers to set things right. But when her anxiety becomes too much, everything begins to fall apart. With the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-citing soccer star who believes in June even when she doesn't believe in herself, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true. And she and her single mama will own their power as fierce, independent females. She shaves her head and sets two goals: she will beat her anxiety and be the lion she knows she can be, instead of the mouse everyone sees. ![]() Twelve-year-old June Delancey is kicking summer off with a bang. ![]() Book Synopsis From the acclaimed author of Tune It Out and Roll with It comes a "needed, hopeful" ( Booklist) middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one life-changing summer. ![]()
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