Good different

Title
Good different

Personal Author EPSB
Meg Eden, Kuyatt

Summary
Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student. Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble. But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn't mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it's too late?

Year Published
2023-2024

Physical Description
273 pages ; 22 cm

Age Interest level
008-012.

Grade Interest level
4-6.

Awards
Schneider Family Honor Book for Middle Grades, 2024.

Subject
Self-realization -- Fiction.
 
Self-perception -- Fiction.
 
Self-control -- Fiction.
 
Emotions -- Fiction.
 
School stories.

Genre
Children's stories.
 
Novels in verse.
 
School fiction.

Summary
Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student. Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble. But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn't mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it's too late?

ISBN
9781338816105
 
9781338893274

Publisher
New York : Scholastic Press, 2023.
 
New York : Scholastic Press, 2024.
 
©2023


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LansdowneF KUYBook30180000166672Fiction