A thoughtful middle-grade novel about caring for others and for yourself––and what it truly means to be kind and vulnerable
Thirteen-year-old Ivy Campbell has always been a good kid: She supports
her soccer-star brother, bakes with her nana, and puts her friends’
needs before her own. So of course, Ivy is 100 percent supportive when
her mom decides to be a gestational surrogate, carrying and giving birth
to her friends’ baby. But when Ivy finds out the surrogacy treatment
worked and her mom is pregnant—and has been for weeks—she’s shocked that
she’s jealous and worried about what others will think. And most of
all, she’s ashamed that she isn’t reacting to this news in the right
way. The Ivy way. Ivy is determined to prove to herself that she’s just
as unselfish as she’s always believed, and she gets the chance to do
that when she receives an anonymous email from someone who needs her
help. But the more Ivy dives into helping this anonymous person, the
further she gets from the people she loves—and from the person who she
wants to be.
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Laurie Morrison taught middle school for ten years before writing Every Shiny Thing, her middle-grade debut with coauthor Cordelia Jensen. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.
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