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"Big & Little Questions is by turns heartbreaking and heartwarming—exactly like real life. Julie Bowe takes on the tough questions about what it means to be honest, to be a good friend, and to be a family, and offers answers that, while not always easy, are always true."—Linda Urban, author of Weekends with Max and A Crooked Kind of Perfect
"Bowe so masterfully took me inside the head and heart of Wren Jo Byrd that I felt like a ten year old again—and loved every minute."—Barbara O’Connor, author of How to Steal a Dog
"Wren's decision to hide her difficulties at home, even as it affects her life on many fronts, powerfully illustrates how deeply upsetting family changes can be. Bowe's genuine portraits of the key relationships in Wren's life—with her friends, parents, and even the often-difficult Marianna—make for a warm and rewarding story about dealing with change."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Bowe's first-person voice for Wren is quietly contemplative, frustrated, and confused by the disruption in her family but also determined to sort out how things will work. It's a realistic young voice nicely free from snarky irony, and it's focused on the arts of questioning and paying attention to the answers."—Kirkus Reviews
"Bowe gets most everything right here: the pain and often embarrassment that comes with divorce, the agony over losing an old friend, and the way secrets . . . have ways of slipping out."—Booklist
"The author does a wonderful job bringing these characters to life in an easily relatable way. This title presents tough issues like divorce, lying, and navigating friendships in an age-appropriate manner, inviting wholesome discussions of these subjects."—*School Library Connection
"Bowe integrates the themes of divorce and friendship well and with an awareness of her audience."—*School Library Journal 
"Marianna’s arc is surprisingly rewarding, and the gentle pace and accessible writing make this reachable by readers who are inexperienced emotionally as well as literarily."—*BCCB
Praise for the Friends for Keeps series:
"Preteens will gobble up this girl-friendly depiction of the world of early middle school and its ensuing changes."—Kirkus (My Extra Best Friend)
"[T]his engaging presentation portrays the crossroads friends face as they navigate school popularity, classroom crushes, and the various problems on the path to maturity."—School Library Journal (My Forever Friends)
"Like Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid, My Best Frenemy emphasizes the conflict between wanting to do the right thing and wanting to earn popularity."—School Library Journal (My Best Frenemy)
"Bowe is spot-on with Ida May's feelings. . . . Issues surrounding divorced households are handled realistically."—Kirkus (My New Best Friend)
"A wry, sweet, proud protagonist . . . (this) hits all the right emotional notes."—Booklist (My Last Best Friend)
Autorentext
Julie Bowe is a full-time author who knows how to strum a guitar, count to three in Danish (en, to, tre!), and had her first story published in fifth grade when she entered a contest in the local newspaper and won first place! Julie is the author of the Friends for Keeps series and lives in Wisconsin.
From the Hardcover edition.
Zusammenfassung
From the author of the successful Friends for Keeps series comes Wren Jo Byrd, a nine-year-old introvert whose life has gone topsy-turvy ever since her dad moved out.
It's the start of a new school year and Wren Jo Byrd is worried that everyone will find out her parents separated over the summer. No one knows the truth, not even her best friend, Amber. When even her new teacher refers to her mom as Mrs. Byrd, Wren decides to keep their divorce a total secret. But something else changed over the summer: A new girl named Marianna moved to town and wants to be Amber's next bff. And because of her fib, Wren can't do anything about it. From take-out dinners with Mom to the tiny room she gets at Dad's new place, nothing is the same for Wren anymore. But while Marianna makes everything harder at first, Wren soon learns that Marianna once had to ask many of the same questions—the big ones, as well as the little ones—that Wren is asking now.
Set in Wisconsin, with wonderfully nuanced characters—from the bossy new girl, who acts big but has a secret of her own, to the sporty girl who acts little and shy but who becomes an unexpected friend—this is a book about much more than divorce.
"By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming—exactly like real life. Julie Bowe takes on the tough questions about what it means to be honest, to be a good friend, and to be a family, and offers answers that, while not always easy, are always true."—Linda Urban, author of Weekends with Max and A Crooked Kind of Perfect
"Bowe so masterfully took me inside the head and heart of Wren Jo Byrd that I felt like a ten year old again—and loved every minute."—Barbara O'Connor, author of How to Steal a Dog
Leseprobe
Chapter 1
**Can Two Make a Family?
 
Lots of things have changed since my last first week of school.
• Most of my baby teeth have fallen out and the big ones are filling in.
• My jeans still fit, but they are shorter.
• My hair is long enough to tie under my chin.
• I have a new favorite color—orange (sorry, blue).
• Amber and I got our ears pierced. (Afterward, we hyperventilated for a while.)
• My parents gave me my own phone. Amber has the same one.
But all those changes seem little compared to the big change that happened over the summer. Dad moved out. When your parents decide to get a divorce, someone has to leave.
Now big things—like meeting my new teacher, and finding my desk, and wondering if my friends are allowed to wear tinted lip gloss to school this year—seem little. And little things—like family photos disappearing from the refrigerator door, and not hearing Dad’s truck pull into the driveway, and not smelling his spicy chili simmering on the stove—seem big.
First, Dad lived at a hotel. Then he moved in with some friends. Now it’s September and he’s renting a cabin across the lake from our house. I mean, Mom’s house. I mean, my house. I mean, I don’t know what I mean.
Mom and Dad told me they were getting a divorce on the first day of summer vacation, which used to be my favorite day of the year. I was eating a bowl of fruity cereal. I remember because as soon as they said that word—divorce—I dribbled pink milk down the front of my sparkly koala bear shirt. The one I got when Amber invited me to spend spring break at a resort with her family. We both got the same shirt and pretended we were sisters. Mom and Dad kept talking, but I stopped listening and ran to the bathroom and threw up even though I didn’t have the flu or anything. Fruity cereal does not taste good on its way out of your stomach, but it’s still just as bright.
Mom and Dad told me that everything would be okay, and nothing was my fault, and they both loved me very much.
But nothing was okay.
I’m part of this family too. I should get a say in the big stuff.
My mom is the head librarian at the Oak Hill Public Library, and she’s always telling me to look things up for myself. I looked up the word divorce in the big, fat dictionary that sits on a fancy pedestal at the back of her library. It’s not like I’d never heard that word before. I mean, I watch TV. But I didn’t really know what it meant, or exactly how to spell it. After a fe…