AMELIA GRAY IS ALMOST OKAY

AMELIA GRAY IS ALMOST OKAY is a hilarious, charming exploration of that preteen sense of finding oneself cranked up a notch as one girl charges through a summer of self-exploration trying to find the perfect answer to the hardest question she's had to face: Who are you?

Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has moved schools thirty-two times in the last five years due to her single father's job as a hotel renovation consultant. Every month, they're in a new town with a fun new hotel to remodel. Which doesn't leave a lot of time for making friends. But that's perfectly fine for Amelia. She loves their "life on the go." So when Dad announces that he wants to settle in their latest hometown not just for a month, but maybe forever, Amelia is completely blindsided. She thought her dad liked their "life on the go" just as much as she did! Now, with the prospect of staying in the same place long term, Amelia feels a pressure to fit in that she's never experienced before. If she's not just a person passing through, then who is she? What's her thing? And will other people like it? With two months before she starts at a school she intends to stay at, Amelia makes plans for a summer of reinvention. But to become the best version of herself, she's going to try out two totally new versions of her life. And so "Amie" and "Mellie" are born. Amie loves sports and has signed up to join the summer track camp at the local community park, while Mellie loves journalism and has joined the Summerville Youth Gazette newspaper, determined to scoop out the next big story of the town. One of them will be exactly who Amelia is meant to be, and she's going to spend the summer figuring it out. Jessica Brody knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. She started self "publishing" her own books when she was seven years old, binding the pages together with cardboard, wallpaper samples, and electrical tape. After graduating from Smith College in 2001 where she double majored in Economics and French and minored in Japanese, Jessica later went on to work for MGM Studios as a Manager of Acquisitions and Business Development. In May of 2005, Jessica quit her job to follow her dream of becoming a published author. Since then, Jessica has written and published over seventeen novels for teens, tweens, and adults including 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, A Week of Mondays (a Texas Lone Star list selection), Addie Bell's Shortcut to Growing Up, The Geography of Lost Things, Better You Than Me, The Chaos of Standing Still, In Some Other Life (a Junior Library Guilt selection), and the three books in the Unremembered trilogy. She is also the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, a how-to plotting book for novelists. Her latest young adult novel, Sky Without Stars, a sci-fi retelling of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (co- written by Joanne Rendell) released in March of 2019. Additionally, Jessica writes books for Disney Press, including the Descendants: "School of Secrets" series, based on the hit Disney Channel Original movie, Descendants, and the LEGO Disney Princess chapter books.