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ISBN:	0763672173 (ISBN13: 9780763672171)
Edition Language:	English URL http://candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=Title&mode=book&isbn=0763672173&pix=y

Still a Work in Progress

Jo Knowles

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 518 Users | 130 Reviews

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Title	:	Still a Work in Progress
Author	:	Jo Knowles
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2016 by Candlewick Press
Categories	:	Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction. Young Adult. Family. Contemporary

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In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister’s secret struggle.

Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she’d been doing better ever since the Thing They Don’t Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. As it becomes clear through Emma’s ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she’s not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis.

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ARC from Young Adult Books CentralNoah's seventh grade year at his small school starts off a bit tense-- his friend Sam has left a tuna fish sandwich in his locker, boys are standing on the toilets to get in and out of the stall without unlocking the door (no one knows why, exactly), he's worried about the bigger kids giving him a hard time, and he and hid friends are trying their hands at asking girls out. Noah has bigger problems, too. His sister Emma had an unspecified issue last year, and he

I love that you are waiting anxiously to know about "the thing we don't talk about" while going through Noah's daily life.

Still A Work in Progress, the seventh novel from Jo Knowles, begins with Noah and his middle school crowd caught up in friendship, families, who-likes-who, and smelly stuff. Its all charming in a Wonder Years kind of way. But after a mention or two of the Thing That Happened, we know that all is not right and something is lurking. Noahs older sister Emma is militantly vegan. Their parents tread lightly where Emmas eating is concerned. Noah has no choice but to go along, but his mind is mostly

I had the opportunity to read a digital ARC (NetGalley) of this middle grade realistic fiction novel by Jo Knowles in exchange for this review. I really enjoyed this book and am going to be anxious to see how the students in my class like it. This book tells the story of a seventh grade boy, Noah, who is dealing with all of the stuff of middle school: friends, budding romance, teachers, homework, parents, etc. On top of all of that, his older sister, Emma, is at the center of a family crisis

Noah deals with the usual day-to-day dramas of middle school as he and his friends squabble about girls and dating. However, woven through his narrative is his worry about the Thing They Dont Talk About which readers will gradually realize is that Noahs sister, Emma, has an eating disorder. Home life is stressful, especially at meals, where Emma dictates rules (such as no meat), and their parents go along with it in hopes that Emma will just eat. Balancing out the difficulties at home are Noahs

Noah's life is completely changing. All at once, his friends start dating or talking about dating. That'd be bad enough, but his older sister may be getting sick again. I think this may be Jo Knowles' best yet. Noah's confusion and anxiety is perfectly captured. I could imagine every character and scene in this novel, and everything broke my heart and fixed it and broke it again. Highly recommended.

This is definitely 3.5 stars. It is hard for me to give a Jo Knowles' book only 3.5 stars. I usually love everything she writes - especially See You at Harry's. I will still book talk it with students and share it soon.