Summer of June

<b>From the acclaimed author of <i>Tune It Out</i> and <i>Roll with It</i> comes a needed hopeful (<i>Booklist</i>) middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one life-changing summer.</b> <p/>Twelve-year-old June Delancey is kicking summer off with a bang. She shaves her head and sets two goals: she will beat her anxiety and be the lion she knows she can be instead of the mouse everyone sees. And she and her single mama will <i>own</i> their power as fierce independent females. <p/>With the help of Homer Juarez the poetry-citing soccer star who believes in June even when she doesn't believe in herself she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true. But when her anxiety becomes too much everything begins to fall apart. It's going to take more than a haircut and some flowers to set things right. It's going to take courage and friends and watermelon pie. Forget second chances. This is the summer of new beginnings.