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Aimee Lucido''s hybrid middle grade novel explores the fraught relationship between sisters as they navigate their differences and their parents'' divorce--beautifully told in words and comic panels. Olive collects words. Rare words, common words, fancy words, funny words. She expresses herself through definitions, poetry, and crossword puzzles that she creates. Her sister, Mattie, could not be more opposite. Mattie struggles with words and prefers pictures instead, expressing herself through cartoons and sketches. Despite their differences, the two girls are inseparable. Or at least they were. After their dad moves to Durham, North Carolina, where he works as a professor during the week, and Olive develops a crush on Max Tucker and begins making friends other than Mattie, the sisters'' dynamic changes. With their dad gone and acting suspiciously when he''s home, their mom hovering over them about grades, and their own relationship fracturing, Olive and Mattie, through crossword puzzles and sketches, definitions and doodles, come to realize that love doesn''t always look how we envision and it and that sometimes letting someone go is the best way to show you love them.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Aimee Lucido is a crossword maker, trivia writer, and the author of several books for kids, including Emmy in the Key of Code, Recipe for Disaster, and Pasta Pasta Lotsa Pasta. She got her MFA in writing for children and young adults at Hamline University and lives with her husband, daughter, and dog in Irvington, New York. When she’s not making puzzles or writing books, Aimee likes to cook, run, and watch reality TV.
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Zusammenfassung
Olive thinks in words. Mattie thinks in pictures. Can they find a way to speak the same language?
“Poetry, word play, and comics intertwine in surprising ways throughout this moving story of family and friendship.” – Terri Libenson, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Emmie and Positively Izzy
“This book will expand your heart as much as it will your vocabulary. It’s a beautiful reminder that family comes in all form(at)s. Simply stupendous!” – Kate O'Shaughnessy, Newbery Honor Award-winning author of The Wrong Way Home
“A masterclass in the verse-novel, as well as a joyride for logophiles young and old.” – Lindsay Lackey, author of the award-winning All the Impossible Things
Beautifully told in words and comic panels, Mattie and Olive’s story will stay with you.
Olive collects words. Rare words, common words, fancy words, funny words. She expresses herself by writing poetry, making crossword puzzles, and creating dictionary definitions for what she refers to as "neologisms."
Her sister, Mattie, could not be more different. Mattie struggles with words and so instead prefers pictures, expressing herself through cartoons and sketches.
Despite their differences, the two girls are inseparable. Or at least, they were. After their dad moves away and Olive develops her first crush, the sisters’ dynamic changes. Olive wants to spend more time with people who aren't related to her, but Mattie doesn't want anything to change. When their dad starts acting suspiciously and Mattie’s grades begin to fall, the sisters’ relationship fractures. Olive and Mattie must discover that love isn’t always how we envision it.
Aimee Lucido’s latest novel in verse is a heartfelt and inventive story of what happens when the people we love change—and we do, too.
Perfect for fans of:
- Verse novels with voice and heart
- Graphic hybrids with emotion and humor
- Stories about sisters, divorce, and changing families
- Wordplay, poetry, and made-up definitions
- Neurodiverse representation
- Fans of Click, Sisters, and El Deafo
