When her mom decides a change of location might do her good, Tess finds herself on an airplane bound for her aunts house in small town Wyoming and a summer vacation attending art camp. Worse still, it seems like everyone else has found a way to move on, even her twin sister Frankie. Still grieving her best friends death, she is consumed by the fear that everything was her fault and her sadness that Colette is never coming back. But all Tess does is worry, constantly picking at her fingers every time a new worry arises. Tess has always understood her role in her family. Book Synopsis In this companion to Tornado Brain, a moving tale of loss and healing comes full circle. Characters’ ethnicities aren’t explicitly stated.About the Book Mere months after her best friends death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties. While most plot threads wrap up neatly, the story does end with the acknowledgment that Ella may not be able to maintain her new friends and salvage her old ones as well.

Her romance with Andy is obvious from their first interaction, but readers will enjoy waiting for Ella to open her heart to this boy from outside her social set. Ella is engaging as she evolves from her formerly shallow self. Will the girl who believes that everyone gets a love story finally write her own? Hartwell gives the accident-induced amnesia trope a meet-cute, and a romantic spin. As Ella deciphers each clue, she begins to come out of her post-accident shell and make new friends that feel more comfortable than her old ones, including adorkable Andy, who becomes her scavenger hunt partner. But a paper heart message from a secret admirer sends Ella on a journey to fill in the blanks in her memory. More disturbingly, she finds ample evidence that she behaved similarly in the past. She frequently notices her best friends mocking other students. Ella has also found it uncomfortable to step back into her former life. While physically recovered, Ella cannot remember anything from the weeks prior to the accident, including why she left the dance. A year ago she had a serious car accident after leaving the holiday dance early. Gr 6-10–The Valentine’s Day festivities at her high school leave senior Ella Fitzpatrick on edge.

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