About This Book
When your middle schooler is feeling the pressure of family finances and how it might impact their social life, this book offers a gentle and relatable story. It follows Lissa, the fundraising chair for her cheer team, who becomes deeply anxious after overhearing her widowed mother worrying about bills. Fearing she'll have to quit the team, Lissa tries to solve the problem on her own, hiding her stress from everyone. This story compassionately explores a child's anxiety over money, modeling how open communication can ease even the biggest fears. For readers aged 10 to 13, it normalizes these common worries and shows the power of family support, resilience, and facing problems head on.
What Parents Should Know
Sensitive Topics
The death of Lissa's father is a background detail (the mother is a widow) that explains the family's single-income financial precarity. It is treated as a fact of life, not an active grieving process in the story. The approach to financial hardship is direct and realistic, focusing on the child's internal anxiety. The resolution is hopeful and reassuring, emphasizing communication and love over a magical financial fix. The book's perspective is secular.
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