Tiny Infinities

When Alice's dad moves out, leaving her with her troubled mother, she does the only thing that feels right: she retreats to her family's old Renaissance tent in the backyard, determined to live there until her dad comes home. In an attempt to keep at least one part of her summer from changing, Alice focuses on her quest to swim freestyle fast enough to get on her swim team's record board. But summers contain multitudes, and soon Alice meets an odd new friend, Harriet, whose obsession with the school's science fair is equal only to her conviction that Alice's best stroke is backstroke, not freestyle. Most unexpected of all is an unusual babysitting charge, Piper, who is mute--until Alice hears her speak. A funny and honest middle-grade novel, this sharply observed depiction of family, friendship, and Alice's determination to prove herself--as a babysitter, as a friend, as a daughter, as a person--rings loud and true.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 05/08/2018
ISBN: 9781452163352
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 01/01/2018
Booklist 04/15/2018 pg. 53
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2018
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2018
Foreword 04/26/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2018 - Recommended - Readable
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 pg. 73 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 195542 / Tiny Infinities
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 12