#GRAFIAT

The following is excerpt from the front flap of the book.

"Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid."

Ally has been smart enough to foll a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She's tired to being called "slow" and "loser," but she's afraid to ask for help; after all, she thinks, how can you cure dumb?

However, Ally's newest teacher see the bright, creative kid beneath the troublemaker and helps to shine a light on her gifts. Meanwhile, Ally gets to know tell-it-like-it-is Keisha and science- and facts-obsessed Albert, who also break the mold. The three stand together against others who are not so kind.

As the outsiders begin to fit in, surprising things begin to happen in Ally's classroom that show her there's a lot more to her-and-to everyone-than a label, and that great minds don't always think alike.

The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who's ever though there was something wrong with them because the didn't fit in.