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A review by tcbueti
Chirp by Kate Messner
5.0
Wove together lots of threads with a strong theme of women being empowered and empowering each other.
Mia was injured in a gymnastics accident and has given it up completely. Something happened that sabotataged her self-confidence. (Little hints about trusting people you just met tell us where this is going.) She and her family head to back Burlington from Boston to help her grandma sell her cricket far, but when they get there it seems she wants to keep trying to make it succeed.
Mia's parents (mostly her mom) insist that she lose her apathy and do two activities over the summer. To avoid gymnastics, she chooses an entrepreneurial camp and a warrior-competition-style class. Her grandmothers situation inspires her for the former, and a desire not to look wimpy makes her try to regains one of her earlier strength in the latter. Understanding and supportive coaches and teammates help her confidence grow, and when she starts to believe her grandma's claims that someone is actually attacking her cricket farm, she and her new friend Clover start investigating. This part of the story was very entertaining.
Mia was injured in a gymnastics accident and has given it up completely. Something happened that sabotataged her self-confidence. (Little hints about trusting people you just met tell us where this is going.) She and her family head to back Burlington from Boston to help her grandma sell her cricket far, but when they get there it seems she wants to keep trying to make it succeed.
Mia's parents (mostly her mom) insist that she lose her apathy and do two activities over the summer. To avoid gymnastics, she chooses an entrepreneurial camp and a warrior-competition-style class. Her grandmothers situation inspires her for the former, and a desire not to look wimpy makes her try to regains one of her earlier strength in the latter. Understanding and supportive coaches and teammates help her confidence grow, and when she starts to believe her grandma's claims that someone is actually attacking her cricket farm, she and her new friend Clover start investigating. This part of the story was very entertaining.