With thanks to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing for an early copy in return for an honest review.

Navigating friendships during the transition from elementary to middle school is incredibly difficult. Add in a brother struggling with an opioid addiction and Emma has a lot on her plate right now. Her parents decide she should spend a summer in Wyoming. Good book about some really tough issues. I appreciated the look at the far reaching impact of addiction. Due to the tough issues, I probably wouldn't recommend this book for a young MG reader.

There’s a lot packed into this book. There aren’t many books for middle grade students that show the effects of addiction on a family, and this one approaches the topic from a couple different angles. I appreciated how the topic was handled in a non-judgemental way. The importance of forgiveness also has a starring role. This book will help children dealing with these issues in silence,

This book was so well done! The familial relationships, the friendships, the feelings of the characters, the connections, etc were all realistic and meaningful. They story was interesting and kept me turning the pages.

Emma casts aside long time BFF Becca for some artsy new friends while Austin, her high school brother, battles addiction to opioids after a sports injury. Spending the summer after 6th grade in Wyoming gives Emma a chance to start over, but it feels like running away from her brother and herself. Good presentation of different families and their challenges, realistic portrayal of addiction, believable conflicts between friends as relationships change. Quite engaging.

This was an excellent book about family, friends, opioid addiction, and team effort. Emma is dealing with the usual middle school drama of new friends which hurts the feeling of her old best friend when something happens. While that’s on her mind, she finds out her brother is addicted to opioid painkillers from a surgery. Her parents send her to Wyoming to see family friends while her brother is in rehab and while there she makes a new friend and comes up with a way to show her best friend she’s sorry. Her brothers’s situation is on her mind, but she knows it takes one day at a time. Great book about some tough issues,