I also had a glittery, gift-wrapped box in a black and pink polka-dot gift bag, full of all the sorts of things that make a stay in the hospital a little less terrible. For my visit, I’d matched my fun outfit-black jeans, pink and white headband, pink fleece sweatshirt-to the giant greeting card in the pink envelope signed by the entire class. JC’s huge Filipino family had been camped out in the hospital since day one. I’d had to wait till the weekend-Mom worked the three-to-eleven shift at the hospital and didn’t have time to take me-but I was still going to be JC’s first visitor-from school, anyway. JC’s doctor had finally said she could have visitors after her kidney transplant, and all the fun things I’d planned could finally happen. I’d also missed JC’s squeaky laugh, and the way she had to wave her hands around when she said anything. I’d missed having someone to eat all of the banana chips out of my trail mix. Vejar’s first boys-against-girls life sciences quiz.
Since she’d left school in September, she’d missed the social studies movie in the library, and Mrs. We’d texted, and I talked to her on the phone every day she hadn’t been too woozy, to catch her up on all the news. IT HAD BEEN DAYS-a hundred and sixty-eight hours. Life doesn’t have a pause button-but as Serena discovers her voice through vlogging, she learns that she’s not just there to reflect JC’s light-she’s fully capable of shining on her own. instead of not saying what she should, or, even worse, blurting out a secret that wasn’t hers to share. It would be so much easier to say the right thing at the right time. If she can be smart and funny on video, why can’t she manage that in real life? If only she could always pause, edit, or delete conversations. Lonely Serena works on perfecting her vlogs, hoping to earn a shot at becoming a classroom reporter.
Out of the spotlight of JC’s friendship, suddenly things aren’t quite so sparkly in Serena’s world. John is proud to be known as her best friend.Įverything changes when JC returns from the hospital with a new kidney-and a new best friend. She has the best ideas, the biggest, funniest laugh, and the party starts when she arrives. Davis delivers a heartwarming and humorous middle grade tale about a young Black girl who finds her own voice through vlogging and learns to speak out.
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