âA lovely, heartbreaking, warm, funny, and ultimately hopeful map of the way back home.â âJordan Sonnenblick, author of Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
A cancer survivor must readjust to ânormalâ middle school life in this âpowerful story about surviving and thrivingâ (School Library Journal, starred review) from the author of Star-Crossed and Truth or Dare.
Norah Levy has just completed two years of treatment for leukemia and is ready to go back to the âreal worldâ of middle school. She knows itâll be trickyâbut like the Greek mythological characters she read about while she was sick, Norahâs up for any challenge.
But seventh grade turns out to be harder than she thought. Norahâs classmates donât know what to make of her. Her best friend, Harper, tries to be there for her, but she doesnât get it, reallyâand is hanging out with a new group of girls. Norahâs other good friend, Silas, is avoiding her. Whatâs that about, anyway?
When Norah is placed with the eighth graders for math and science, she meets Griffin, a cute boy who encourages her love of Greek mythology and art. And Norah decides not to tell him her secretâthat she was âthat girlâ who had cancer. But when something happens to make secret-keeping impossible, Norah must figure out a way to share her story.
But how do you explain something to others that you canât explain to yourself? Can Nora take her cue from her favorite Greek myth? And then, once she finds the words, can she move forward with a whole new ânormal?â