Cassie's mom is suffering from early onset Alzheimers. It has affected Cassie's schoolwork, friendships, artwork. She just wants her mom to go back to the way she was. She just wants her mom to remember her name.
One of the things Cassie's mom loves is swimming in the ocean and she once had an opportunity to swim with dolphins. Cassie hopes that if she can find a way for her mom to do that again maybe she will have a new memory, maybe she will remember her.
A sad story - the inevitable decline of Alzheimers happening to a mom with a younger child. Cassie was trying so hard. The book is a sold middle grade book. I felt there were things that could have been developed more fully - more with her art perhaps or more with her friend. It didn't seem fully realized to me.
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