Friends, please meet my girl Daisy Jackson. See that look in her eyes? This girl has some questions, and she’s also got opinions, not that she’s about to share them with you. Daisy is ten years old and highly skilled in the art of invisibilizing, a skill she honed two years ago, when the school bullies nicknamed her Weird Sad and Silent.

Daisy sits in the back of the classroom, she doesn’t raise her hand, and she doesn’t eat lunch in the cafeteria. In fact, Daisy talks mostly to the adults in her life: her mama Flora, her neighbor Lulu, Marimba the school librarian, and Captain the school custodian.

That’s until a new kid, Austin, shows up one day. There’s something about Austin, something Daisy can’t explain, something that makes him feel like…a kindred spirit. Daisy might be your kindred spirit too. WEIRD SAD AND SILENT, on bookshelves everywhere May 6. 

GIVEAWAY: Is there a kindred spirit in your life? Someone who just gets you and always has? Tell me about them in an email or the comments, and I’ll enter you in this week’s drawing for a signed copy of the novel.

WEIRD SAD AND SILENT, on bookshelves everywhere May 6.