{"id":12567,"date":"2022-04-07T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12567"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:58:18","slug":"f-is-florida-friendship-for-abby-tried-and-true-through-so-many-difficult-life-changes-by-donna-gephart-mg-book-review-a2z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12567","title":{"rendered":"F is Florida & friendship for ABBY, TRIED AND TRUE, through so many difficult life changes, by Donna Gephart (MG book review) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Best friend moving away, <\/a>
big brother so sick,
seventh grade ahead\u2026sigh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, shy Abby doesn’t know how she’ll get over her lifelong friend Cat moving from Florida all the way to Israel. She does know that she’ll write in the journal that Cat gave her, this summer when she’s turning twelve (Fudge is a very good pet turtle, but their conversations are very one-sided).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her 16-year-old brother Paul will play Monopoly with her (when he’s not practicing basketball with his buddies), Mom Rachel will keep inviting Abby to make cooking videos with her and Paul (nope, too shy to get in front of the camera), and Mama Dee’s sweet treats from her bakery make everyone feel better (but not Abby, this time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm\u2026 who’s this boy moving into Cat’s house? Maybe she can be brave and meet him\u2026 Conrad, whose mom is renting the house after her divorce. He’s in her grade, good at basketball and board games and listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul comes back from summer camp so sick. Oh no\u2026. cancer! After the going-away party for his cancerous <\/a>testicle (boys are so weird), he’ll have surgery and start chemo. That means he’ll miss lots of school; it doesn’t mean his friends should stay away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seventh grade begins, and Abby is glad that Conrad is there so she doesn’t have to walk home alone with her worries (will they celebrate the Jewish high holidays in the hospital or at home?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many difficult days ahead for Abby’s family – she’s really, really glad to have Conrad by her side\u2026 maybe more than glad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available in paperback this week – find Abby at your your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When have your friends supported you through tough times?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Abby, Tried and True \/ Donna Gephart. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, hardcover 2021, paperback 2022. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best friend moving away, big brother so sick, seventh grade ahead\u2026sigh. Honestly, shy Abby doesn’t know how she’ll get over her lifelong friend Cat moving from Florida all the way to Israel. She does know that she’ll write in the journal that Cat gave her, this summer when she’s turning twelve (Fudge is a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10,90,272,22,7,75,182,5,16,87,18,239,44,13,43,388,352,187,27,49,184,15,21,73,35,3,8,61],"class_list":["post-12567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-animals","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-cooking","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-friendship","tag-games","tag-growing-up","tag-israel","tag-jewish","tag-lgbtq","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12765,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions\/12765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}