Not if I can help it / Carolyn Mackler.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 230 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780545709484
- 0545709482
- Sensory disorders -- Juvenile fiction
- Adjustment (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Life skills -- Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Mackler Carolyn | Available | 33111009380367 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From award-winning Carolyn Mackler, the story of Willa, who has been living with Sensory Processing Disorder but is thrown for a BIG loop when her dad announces he's dating Willa's best friend's mom.Willa likes certain things to be certain ways. Her socks have to be soft . . . and definitely can't have irritating tags on the inside. She loves the crunch of popcorn and nachos . . . but is grossed out by the crunch of a baby carrot. And slimy foods? Those are the worst.Willa can manage all these things -- but there are some things she can't deal with, like her father's big news. He's been keeping a big secret from her . . . that he's been dating the mom of Willa's best friend Ruby. Willa does NOT like the idea of them being together. And she does NOT like the idea of combining families. And she does NOT like the idea of her best friend becoming her sister overnight. Will she go along with all of these changes? NOT if she can help it!
Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly Willa's life seems to be spiraling out of her control--and part of the trouble is that she cannot even explain why she thinks this is a horrible idea, when everyone else thinks that it is wonderful.