The Deepest Breath

The Deepest Breath
Meg Grehan
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Hardback
h211 x 145mm - 192pg
16 Feb 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780358354758
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An accessible and beautifully written middle grade novel-in-verse by award-winning Irish author Meg Grehan about Stevie, a young girl reckoning with anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand--including her feelings about her friend Chloe. Perfect for fans of Ivy Aberdeen' s Letter to the World, Star Crossed, and George. 11-year-old Stevie is an avid reader and she knows a lot of things about a lot of things. But these are the things she' d like to know the most: 1. The ocean and all the things that live there and why it' s so scary 2. The stars and all the constellations 3. How phones work 4. What happened to Princess Anastasia 5. Knots Knowing things makes Stevie feel safe, powerful, and in control should anything bad happen. And with the help of her mom, she is finding the tools to manage her anxiety. But there' s one something Stevie doesn' t know, one thing she wants to understand above everything else, and one thing she isn' t quite ready to share with her mom: the fizzy feeling she gets in her chest when she looks at her friend, Chloe. What does it mean and why isn' t she ready to talk about it? In this poetic exploration of identity and anxiety, Stevie must confront her fears to find inner freedom all while discovering it is our connections with others that make us stronger.
"A heartwarming and tear-provoking coming-of-age novel, brimming with empathy and a child' s imagination. "--Booklist, STARRED review "In spacious verse that mirrors a worried preteen' s breathlessness, Grehan (The Space Between) vibrantly captures the anxious inner landscape of 11-year-old Stevie, an Irish girl missing her estranged father and harboring a secret crush on her friend Chloe. . . . Small in scope and big in heart and feeling, this novel is a tender portrait of gay early adolescence and a strong mother-daughter attachment. "--Publishers Weekly
Meg Grehan is a writer originally from County Louth, but is now hiding away in Donegal in the northwest corner of Ireland, with a very ginger girlfriend, an even more ginger dog, and an undisclosed number of cats (none of whom is ginger). In 2018, she won the Eillis Dillon award from Children' s Books Ireland. She is currently studying film and likes cake and rain; dislikes going outside. Visit her at megcathwrites. wordpress. com and on Twitter and Instagram @megcathwrites.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780358354758
Published: 16 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardback
Height: 211mm
Width: 145mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 204g
Pages: 192

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