Abby Cooper

This book is about a young girl who does not have many friends. She decides to write a book about a friend. As she writes her story, the friend appears next door just like she wrote in her story. Jamie gets confused. How did her story come to pass? When the story that she writes, begins to unfold before her eyes she decides to write something to see if she can check this theory. Zoey, her neighbors father, gets cancer. Just like Jamie wrote. This story deals with many challenges that students may go through. From having no friends to dealing with death in the family.… (more)

Jade is constantly let down living in a town where people especially her friends are always leaving. Her solution is to create a best friend through her writing and Zoe is born. Through stories Jade and Zoe have a perfect relationship until one day a new girl appears who is Zoe in every way. When Jade discovers how Zoe came to be she must decide what is the right thing to do not only for her but for others. While the story seems like your typical middle school friendship drama there is depth to the story. Jade is dealing with her father having cancer and finds out some truths about friends she didn’t even know she had. Author Abby Cooper handles each character’s personality beautifully and the writing captures middle school emotions.… (more)

Imagine yourself as a kid. Not only is it YOUR fault your mom lost her job and broke up with her boyfriend, now you are seeing the thoughts of others around you. You know, like the ones you see above cartoon characters in the comics, thought bubbles. You start to believe maybe something is seriously wrong with you. It is hard enough being a kid, now this?

Author Abby Cooper writes an incredible tale about a girl who is so in tune with the people around her it is starting to consume her. As a reader, I connected with this story and the main character Sophie. I was just like her when I was a kid. I always worried about the people and events around me. I would obsess about the unknown and what I had no power over, but I never let anyone know about it. It did not manifest in the same way as Sophie's feeling did, but none the less, I could relate. Abby Cooper has a way of storytelling that reminds you of the adolescent you. So real, so rich, so tender. A must read for fourth grades and up!… (more)