How to Become a Planet
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- Synopsis
- For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It&’s the launch to her favorite season, which also includes visits to the boardwalk arcade, working in her mom&’s pizzeria, and her best friend Meredith&’s birthday party. But this summer, none of that feels possible. A month before the end of the school year, Pluto&’s frightened mom broke down Pluto&’s bedroom door. What came next were doctor&’s appointments, a diagnosis of depression, and a big black hole that still sits on Pluto&’s chest, making it too hard to do anything. Pluto can&’t explain to her mom why she can&’t do the things she used to love. And it isn&’t until Pluto&’s dad threatens to make her move with him to the city—where he believes his money, in particular, could help—that Pluto becomes desperate enough to do whatever it takes to be the old Pluto again. She develops a plan and a checklist: If she takes her medication, if she goes to the planetarium with her mom for her birthday, if she successfully finishes her summer school work with her tutor, if she goes to Meredith&’s birthday party . . . if she does all the things that &“normal&” Pluto would do, she can stay with her mom in Jersey. But it takes a new therapist, a new tutor, and a new (and cute) friend with a checklist and plan of her own for Pluto to learn that there is no old and new Pluto. There&’s just her.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 288 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781643751627
- Publisher:
- Algonquin Books
- Date of Addition:
- 06/30/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Nicole Melleby.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Psychology
- Grade Levels:
- Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade
- Reading Age:
- 9–12
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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