Me, Myself & The Messy Misunderstanding
An upper-middle grade novel
One big mess. Two worlds. No easy way out. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Garcia isn’t worried about being the new kid in her U.S. school, not with her perfect English and years at an all-American school back in the Dominican Republic. But when her classmates assume she only speaks Spanish, Lucy makes a split-second decision to play along, keeping her English skills a secret. What starts as a simple act of defiance spirals into a tangled web of deceit—and when a classmate threatens to expose her, Lucy must confront who she truly is and decide whether fitting in is worth the price of hiding herself.