After a knee injury sidelines her ballet dreams, Maisie struggles with her new reality as she is no longer able to maintain her ballet training and auditions. While her family is supportive, Maisie knows they do not understand the hopelessness that she feels. Her anxieties soon lead to dark moods that begin to hurt as much as the pain in her knee. She has no interest in the planned family road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up. How can she possibly keep pretending to be strong?
- ISBN: 9780062872043
- Author: Christine Day
- Published: 2021 , Heartdrum
- Themes: Ballet, Depression, Family, Grief, Indigenous culture, Mental Health, resilience
- Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, United States
- No. of pages: 272