Marvelous Middle Grade Monday-The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers

You know you're going to love a book when you start:

- thinking of students that you can share it with right away.

-looking for people to read it aloud to because there are laugh out loud moments, profound moments and moments of heartbreak.

-highlighting something on almost every page because you love what the author wrote.

And the book? The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers.

From Goodreads:

Newcomer Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a club whose members have no intention of letting her join. Now Kammie’s trapped in the dark, growing increasingly claustrophobic, and waiting to be rescued—or possibly not.

As hours pass, the reality of Kammie’s predicament mixes with her memories of the highlights and lowlights of her life so far, including the reasons her family moved to this new town in the first place. And as she begins to run out of oxygen, Kammie starts to imagine she has company, including a French-speaking coyote and goats that just might be zombies. 

It's heart-wrenchingly good and I know many a student will relate on a personal level because it that speaks to our need to find friends and fit in. It's also a page-turner and not just because the main character is stuck in a well and you want to know if the mean girls who put her in that position are actually going to get help. Kammie's backstory is just as compelling and you slowly find out everything that happened that brings Kammie to this point. Recommended and then some.

More Marvelous Middle Grade Monday posts HERE! Happy Reading all.