  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 07/01/2019 Twelve-year-old Glad, who lives with her father and two sisters, has a drive to fix problems. It hasn’t won her any friends so far, but her classmates sometimes sidle up to her at lunchtime to ask for help with a variety of issues. Unfortunately, the assistant principal has warned Glad to stop meddling. She tries, but it’s not so easy to refuse kids in distress. At home, she focuses on improving her dad in hopes of reuniting her parents. It’s been 18 months since Mom left “to get her head together.” The family’s central problem is not Glad’s to solve, but she feels compelled to try. Moving at a good pace, the story’s appealing first-person narrative becomes more involving as Glad’s personal problems mount. With confrontations at school and disputes at home, a rising tide of uncertainty threatens to engulf her, but the story’s climax brings relief and newfound clarity. Glad and her sisters are well-defined characters whose very different points of view bring tension and balance to this engaging chapter book. - Copyright 2019 Booklist. Loading...
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