The Summer Of June Av Jamie Sumner

<B>From the acclaimed author of <I>Tune It Out</I> and <I>Roll with It</I> comes a “needed, hopeful” (<I>Booklist</I>) middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one life-changing summer.</B><BR/><BR/> Twelve-year-old June Delancey is kicking summer off with a bang. She shaves her head and sets two goals: she will beat her anxiety and be the lion she knows she can be, instead of the mouse everyone sees. And she and her single mama will <I>own</I> their power as fierce, independent females.<BR/><BR/> With the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-citing soccer star who believes in June even when she doesn’t believe in herself, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true. But when her anxiety becomes too much, everything begins to fall apart. It’s going to take more than a haircut and some flowers to set things right. It’s going to take coura