Still a Work in Progress

In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life when his older sister is in crisis.

Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she'd been doing better ever since the Thing They Don't Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. As it becomes clear through Emma's ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she's not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 08/02/2016
ISBN: 9780763672171
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2016
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2016
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2016 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
School Library Journal 11/01/2016

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 183084 / Still a Work in Progress
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 8