This was a quick read of a book. It was all done in stanza format which I liked. The main character lives with her mother and they have a close relationship. Throughout, she speaks about...well she describes in length what we know is her anxiety. At times I had to skip a little because it was very much how I feel throughout the day. While figuring out how her body works with her emotions, she wants to ask simple questions. When she realizes that the internet is no help, she walks by herself to the library. While there, the librarian helps her to realize things by finally asking questions that she is too nervous to ask her mother. This is a wonderful book on how showing what anxiety feels like, how a working single mother cares so deeply for her child, and also how a growing girl can reveal her true feelings for a friend at school.

Absolutely beautiful. This book is so well handled and gives young people the chance to explore questions about their identity and emerging sexuality in safe and innocent way. Stevie is such a likeable character and her story feels simple, real and relateable. I will be recommending this a lot and the verse element adds to it's beauty.

This book was absolutely incredible. I picked it up on a whim because I'd heard someone on Twitter mention it before, but there was just something about this book that stuck with me even after hearing just a handful of words about it. And I'm so incredibly glad this book somehow managed to get stuck into my brain, because I loved it so, so much. 
There's something about this book. It's a small one, but there's something so incredibly powerful about it. The words in the book were quite simple (so perfectly suitable and accessible for its audience) but the author knew how to weave them in a way that just makes you stop in your tracks and reread the same passage over and over again because HOW is it possible for an author to do this with words. HOW. I've highlighted quite a few passages, and even though I've finished the book I've caught myself coming back to it and checking the highlights again.
And besides the writing, the story was so powerful in and of itself. The way it explored queerness and how we followed a young girl learning about her own queerness and her journey towards being open about it was so incredibly lovely, and with the added anxiety representation this was just exactly the kind of book I wish I could give to myself as a kid because the way Stevie felt and the way it was described.... that was, and sometimes still is, me. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who will benefit from reading this book, and I have a feeling this book is going to become incredibly important to a lot of different kids. 
I'm so glad I read this and I can't recommend it enough.