This book is one part of a series of short stories that attempts to meaningfully address the complicated and seldom easy world of today’s middle schoolers. This is how the author, Mike Best, wanted (and sometimes managed) to let his rebel daughter in on some of the facts of life that he wished were taught in school. While adults often view their lives as complicated, the most imperfect of them tend to downplay the challenges associated with the preteen years.

This is not psychological writing and not another class. Those who watched Matrix, will remember Morpheus’ red pill and blue pill. The blue pill is easy but means no growth. The red pill means growth but can be brutal. Mike Best is proposing a series of green pills that are easy on everyone and eventually make the red pill unnecessary or, at the very least, easier to digest when the time comes.