All Ivy manages to save is her pillow which contains her most precious possessions inside its thin case. In this story, a tornado rages through Ivy’s town and destroys her home. Ivy’s angst hit all the right notes and resonated so very deeply. Our eleven and twelve and thirteen-year-olds will hang on to every page. I wish I’d had a book like IVY ABERDEEN’S LETTER TO THE WORLD when I was young and dealing with those tough, awkward tween years. RELATED: Looking for more fantastic LGBTQ books for middle schoolers? Don’t miss this list! Tweens will see themselves in IVY ABERDEEN’S LETTER TO THE WORLD So many questions, so much angst- and so few stories to help me feel less alone and less confused. I longed to know if boys would ever look my way, and I wondered if my community would ever get put back together after suffering from total destruction. I had just become a Bat Mitzvah, and I was also struggling to figure out if I would ever become a graceful teenager and not just a gawky teen. When I was 12 years old, Hurricane Andrew destroyed my home in Miami.
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