Book

Blake, Ashley Herring, author.

Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world / Ashley Herring Blake.

First edition.

New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.

©2018

310 pages ; 21 cm

Middle School.

740L Lexile

Is this what a crush felt like? A constant stomachache, a bubbly feeling in your fingertips? When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of six is displaced. Ivy feels invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm - and what's worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from someone telling her to open up about her identity. Ivy thinks - and hopes - that this someone might be her classmate, a girl on whom Ivy has begun to develop a crush. Will Ivy find the strength and courage to follow her true feelings? Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World is an exquisite, tender novel about emerging identity, enriching middle-grade literature at large. -- From dust jacket.

Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 8.0.

Lexile 740L.

A Junior Library Guild selection, April 2018

ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019

Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers, 2018

Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018

NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children Recommended Book, 2019

New York Public Library Best Books for Kids, 2018

NPR Best Books, 2018

Rainbow Book List, 2019

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

Stonewall Book Award, Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Honor, 2019

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Artists -- Juvenile fiction.

Lesbians -- Juvenile fiction.

Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Juvenile fiction.

Tornadoes -- Juvenile fiction.

Fiction.

9780316515467 (hardcover)

0316515469 (hardcover)

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