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<b>Three starred reviews!</b><br> <br><b>A girl with cerebral palsy navigates loss, grief, and the aftermath of trauma following a school shooting in a world that wasn’t built for her in this “intimate, lyrical” (<i>Publishers Weekly, </i>starred review) novel in verse from Jamie Sumner, the acclaimed author of <i>Roll with It</i>.</b><br><br>There is a Before and an After for sixth grader Bea Coughlin. <i>Before</i> the shooting at her school that took the lives of her classmates and teacher and <i>After</i>, when she must figure out how to grieve, live, and keep rolling forward. But as her community rallies in a tidal wave of marches and speeches and protests, Bea can’t get past the helplessness she felt in her wheelchair as others around her took cover.<br> <br>Through the help of therapeutic horseback riding, Bea finally begins to feel like herself again. And as she heals, she finds her voice and the bravery to demand change.