Life with Mom and Mamaw is full of laughing and loving. It's the only life Beatrice Miller really remembers. When she isn't doing chores and cooking with Mamaw, she is riding bikes and playing games with her two best friends, Mariella and StaceyAnn.
As the start of seventh grade approaches, Beatrice dreams of changing her everyday existence into something with a bit more drama. She daydreams about a boy named Rodney, about wearing cool clothes that don't come from Goodwill, having her own phone, and having a computer that isn't the size of a truck and sits in her room where she can get some privacy. When discussions with other girls at school begin to revolve around makeup, bras, and shaving legs, Beatrice tries to have a conversation with her mom and Mamaw, but she's met with resistance as the women tell her she shouldn't rush growing up. But, how can she hope to be "cool" when everyone else is leaps and bounds ahead of her.
Author Ellen Hagan writes in verse in this heartwarming novel about leaving childhood behind. Beatrice's relatable struggle adapting to a world that seems to want her to set aside the carefree, worry- free trappings of girlhood to jump into the competitive and complicated world of adolescence will resonant with readers experiencing the same anxieties.
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