So Rosalind the Iguana would only be one of many awesome names I could choose from. I ask them questions, I tell them what I’m worrying about, and I try to figure out what the best of them would do. Then I have a whole squad of friends going around with me wherever I go. When I come across important, special, underestimated people like Rosalind, I collect them in my head and they become my friends. She’s a scientist too many people don’t know about. I would name her Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin. Maybe it was a pet iguana? A pet iguana would be one of the most unique pets ever. Maybe a safari in Botswana? Maybe it had something to do with my big sister, Nonny, who lived in Chicago with her husband, Thomas. Honestly, I think you’ll like it as much as that. You’re buying me a puppy, aren’t you?ĭad laughed, looking back at his book. We’re not going to tell you what it is, but there is going to be a surprise waiting for you when you get home from school today. I was already on my third bite so I had to swallow before I could say, What? Then Mom put a bowl of the delicious, steamy Malt-O-Meal in front of me and said, Guess what, Libby. That is my all-time favorite food.ĭad looked up from his book and grinned at me-a mysterious grin like he was hiding a secret. Mom made chocolate Malt-O-Meal for breakfast. This is what happened when I woke up this morning: But it’s not like that’s what I go around thinking about all the time, especially on a day when my mom and dad tell me they have a surprise unbirthday present waiting for me after school. There were a whole buttload of other weird things happening to me when I was born, too. Mom tells me she was very, very scared for her baby girl.
Like it was already shouting, I’M JUST TRYING REALLY HARD OVER HERE. I was born with a heart three sizes too big. Does she have what it takes to care for the sister that has always cared for her? And what will it take for the universe to notice? If she wins the grand prize and gives all that money to Nonny’s family, then the baby will be perfect. So she strikes a deal with the universe: She’ll enter a contest with a project about Cecilia Payne, the first person to discover what stars are made of. Nonny and her husband are in a financial black hole, and Libby knows that babies aren’t always born healthy.
When her big sister Nonny tells her she’s pregnant, Libby is thrilled-but worried. But she has lots of people who love her, and that makes her pretty lucky. Libby was born with Turner Syndrome, and that makes some things hard.
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She’s not great at playing piano, sitting still, or figuring out how to say the right thing at the right time in real life. Twelve-year-old Libby Monroe is great at science, being optimistic, and talking to her famous, accomplished friends (okay, maybe that last one is only in her head). From debut author Sarah Allen comes a pitch-perfect, heartwarming middle grade novel about growing up, finding yourself, and loving people with everything you’re made of.
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