![]() ![]() To reassure herself that she’ll be okay, she even carries a list of “rules,” which will be her guide to fitting in. She longs to fit in, and she’s terrified she won’t. When Caitlyn shows up to the Mitchell School, that’s the place she’s in. Those things appear in entry after entry. Oh, that yearning! I still have my middle school diary, and that’s the primary thing that leaps out from those pages: my desperation to fit in, to belong…and my constant nagging fear that I don’t. There are many wonderful, relatable threads woven into this book, but particularly poignant in the opening scenes is that adolescent yearning, even desperation, to fit in. 2019 Gr 5-8), is a heartwarming examination of megastars, goats, friendship, and finding your own best self. ![]() Ali Benjamin’s sophomore novel, The Next Great Paulie Fink (Little, Brown, Apr. Plus, it’s not even a real school: it’s housed in a dilapidated old mansion, and her 10 classmates are obsessed with finding out what happened to their legendary classmate Paulie Fink, who, it appears, won’t be returning to school. She had-more or less-figured out how to navigate middle school before her mother accepted a job in Mitchell, VT, in “the middle of absolutely nowhere.” She’s angry about leaving her friends and angry about having to start over. ![]() When Caitlyn Breen walks into her rural Vermont school on the first day of seventh grade, she doesn’t know what to expect. ![]()
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