Pia’s Plans

Gr 3-6–Pia has big plans: She is determined to become the best at everything, and she has everything lined up to succeed. From training for track to studying for exams, she checks off the items on her to-do lists every day in order to become perfect. Adjusting to her parents’ divorce, she moves back and forth with her not-so-perfect twin sister from her dad’s chaotic home to her mother’s perfect one. Readers will relate to Pia’s everyday concerns including friendships, family, athletic goals, and good grades. Pia has a more difficult time trying to cope with these stressors as they begin to build up. What happens when life starts becoming imperfect? How can Pia handle the stress that comes with failure and bad days? In this realistic fiction title dealing with anxiety and divorced parents at a young age, Pia is an engaging character learning to handle tough situations. This is a high-interest novel for middle readers, written in a highly accessible format with features including dyslexia-friendly font, increased spacing, larger trim size, and cream-colored paper to minimize contrast.