So let's talk middle school fiction tropes - the biggest is when your best friend suddenly stops being your friend (usually over the summer) and is now popular while you aren't. I read stories with that idea all the time...
And yes, there is some of that in this book. Bea went to Taiwan over the summer and when she comes back and wants to surprise her best friend at their annual end of summer pool party... well, she is the once who gets surprised. So now Bea has no one to sit at lunch with, no real friends. She starts hanging around the path they used to walk and even leaves haiku in invisible ink hoping Sammie will find it and things will go back to normal. But then she meets Will and Briggs and others and starts to become friends with them.
Can Bea discover a way to be herself?
I enjoyed this book even with a familiar trope. Bea was delightful and thoughtful and Will was a great character as was Briggs. Solid choice!
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