Thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy finds out that she's been labeled as "at risk" in her permanent school record. Then the school counselor gives her a notebook and tells her to write to her mother. Her mother has been dead six years. Still, Georgia starts the journal. Readers follow her entries as she converses with her dead mother about poverty, her father, her loneliness, and signs that her mother's artistic gifts are showing up in her. When somebody anonymously pays her membership fee to an art museum, she begins to understand who she is...as well as the person her father is. A feel-good story told in free verse--full of love, friendship, and hope.
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