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It all feels like one challenge too many, until Ellie starts to make her first-ever friends. Except sheвЂ™s not just the new kid - sheвЂ™s the new kid in the wheelchair who lives in the trailer park on the wrong side of town. If sheвЂ™s not writing fan letters to her favorite celebrity chefs, sheвЂ™s practicing recipes on her well-meaning, if overworked, mother.Д«ut when Ellie and her mom move so they can help take care of her ailing grandpa, Ellie has to start all over again in a new town at a new school.

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The thing is, Ellie has big dreams: She might be eating StoufferвЂ™s for dinner, but one day sheвЂ™s going to be a professional baker. That surprises some people, who see a kid in a wheelchair and think sheвЂ™s going to be all sunshine and cuddles. In the tradition of Wonder and Out of My Mind, this big-hearted middle-grade debut tells the story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected turn when she moves to a new town.Д®llieвЂ™s a girl who tells it like it is.

вЂњAn honest, emotionally rich take on disability, family, and growing up.вЂќ ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Truth is stranger than fiction.'A big-hearted story thatвЂ™s as sweet as it is awesome.' (R.J.

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Schu, you should have asked me about the cockatoos! Would you believe me if I told you that part of the story is true? Cockatoos really did live uncaged and fancy free (and eating all the people-food they could get their beaks on) in the trailer next to my grandparentвЂ™s. When I think of childhood and summer, I think of Oklahoma. We spent a lot of time on their back porch, talking late into the night with the zzzt of the bug zapper for background noise. Their bricked-down trailer was my favorite spot in the world. I was born and raised in Tennessee, but my grandparents, whom the book is dedicated to, lived in Oklahoma where I spent my summers and any other time I could beg my parents to take me. Tennessee and Oklahoma are both mine and EllieвЂ™s roots. She watches her grandfather fight for the same independence that she wants as he must come to terms with what he can no longer do. As his dementia worsens, Ellie becomes, for the first time, a caretaker instead of the one always being cared for. And Grandpa is the reason Ellie and her mom move to town in the first place. MemaвЂ™s favorite coffee cup features a mouse lifting a barbell that reads: вЂњLord give me strength.вЂќ That pretty much sums her up: witty and tough. She is also the author of the nonfiction parenting books, Eat, Sleep, Save the World and Unbound. Her forth middle-grade novel The Summer of June hits shelves on May 31st, 2022 with Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Also, I love how the title literally rolls off the page!Д®llieвЂ™s grandparents are the reason Ellie has such a fighting spirit. Jamie Sumner is the author of the critically-acclaimed middle-grade novels, Roll with It, Tune It Out, and One Kid's Trash. She even put Ellie in clothes that donвЂ™t quite match because matchy-matchy is so not EllieвЂ™s style. And Amy got every little detail right, from the purple racing stripes on her wheelchair to the cherry on the pie. So I wrote a story that reflected that.ДЄmy Marie StadelmannвЂ™s cover illustration so perfectly captures Ellie! SheвЂ™s got such a great look to her face that you canвЂ™t help but want to know her. She wants to live her own best life, like anybody would. by Jamie Sumner - 7.99 Simon & Schuster (2020) paperback ISBN 13: 9781534442566 ISBN 10: 1534442561.

No one wants to be the sidekick in their own story. I didnвЂ™t want this story to be about how Ellie changes all the people around her for the better.

I also wanted to write a story that includes disability, but isnвЂ™t about disability. Interest Level 10+ Entertainment Score Reading Level 4.6. As soon as I finished it, I gave a passionate book talk to my fifth graders. I wanted a book that was about a girl who is feisty and loves her family fiercely and finds herself in her baking and refuses to let anyone label her by what they see. I am a huge fan of Jamie SumnerвЂ™s Roll With It. I wanted to write a book that would show my son and all the other kids with special needs that they donвЂ™t have to be shrunk down to their diagnosis. He rolls around in his wheelchair and struggles with many of the things Ellie struggles with in the book вЂ“ fighting to be known for something other than a disability, especially when that disability is so visible with the wheelchair. Jamie Sumner:В My oldest son has cerebral palsy.

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