Kate Messner's latest realistic fiction book centers around Mia, a former gymnast who is afraid of picking up the sport again after an injury. She is helping her Grandma built her cricket business. However, someone is sabotaging the business and Mia and her friends need to find out who it is. Her new friends and other stories of girls being harrassed gives her the courage to face the REAL reason Mia left gymnastics. This story is a bit mature in content, as it tackles the disturbing subject of inappropriate touching and harrassment. It was not graphic but disturbing. However, it may be the book that makes a child know they are not alone and any touching that makes them feel "icky" is not ok and they need to speak up, as Mia did. (FIC MES)
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