From the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down.Lou Montgomery has the voice of an angel, or so her mother tells her and anyone else who will listen. But Lou can only hear the fear in her own voice. Shes never liked crowds or loud noises or even high fives; in fact, shes terrified of them, which makes her pretty sure theres something wrong with her. When Lou crashes their pickup on a dark and snowy road, child services separate the mother-daughter duo. Now she has to start all over again at a fancy private school far away from anything shes ever known. With help from an outgoing new friend, her aunt and uncle, and the school counselor, she begins to see things differently. A sensory processing disorder isnt something to be ashamed of, and music might just be the thing that saves Louand maybe her mom, too.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 10 years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster .

Jamie Sumner's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids and is the author of the middle grade novel Roll with It. She is also the mother to a son with cerebral palsy and lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at Jamie-Sumner. com.