Chris Makes a Friend

"Chris does not want to be spending the summer with her grandparents and her little sister. Her grandparents aren't bad--they just don't let Chris do what she wants to do, which is sit around and read all day. And her sister Becca is the opposite: never sitting still and never being quiet. The good part is that Chris's grandparents are always telling her to go outside and 'get some air'--so she can escape into the woods with a book and get some alone time. Or at least it's alone time until Mia comes along. Mia is also in town for the summer, and she understands Chris in a way that Chris's family just can't"--