Worth a Thousand Words is a terrific book for upper middle grade readers! There are some themes (infidelity, divorce, disability, family dysfunction) that are for slightly more mature readers than my 3rd graders. Heavy issues are handled sensitively yet honestly. Tillie’s nickname at school is “Lost and Found” because of her knack for finding things, but the story is really about finding where she herself belongs. I loved her transformation throughout the story as she discovered her own sense of adventure and grit. I hope middle-grade readers can learn from Tillie’s realization that her perception of herself was very different from how others saw her, and that perhaps her perception of others was also incomplete.