ISBN: 1368041175 9781368041171

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Family / Blended Families

Page count: 304

<b>In this heartfelt middle-grade novel that “brims with charm and compassion” (Vashti Harrison, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Little Leaders</i>), eleven-year-old G-baby must bring her family together when her little sister faces a dangerous illness</b><br><br><i>"Love ain't like that."</i><br><i>"How is it then?" Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me. </i><br><i>"It's like sky. If you keep driving and driving, gas will run out, right?" </i><br><i>"That's why we gotta go to the gas station."</i><br><i>"Yep. But have you ever seen the sky run out? No matter how far we go?" </i><br><i>"No, when we look up, there it is."</i><br><i>"Well that's the kind of love Daddy and Mama got for us, Peaches -- love like sky."</i><br><i>"It never ends?" </i><br><i>"Never."</i><br><br> G-baby and her younger sister, Peaches, are still getting used to their "blended-up" family. They live with Mama and Frank out in the suburbs, and they haven't seen their real daddy much since he married Millicent. G-baby misses her best friend back in Atlanta, and is crushed that her glamorous new stepsister, Tangie, wants nothing to do with her.<br><br> G-baby is so preoccupied with earning Tangie's approval that she isn't there for her own little sister when she needs her most. Peaches gets sick-<i>really </i>sick. Suddenly, Mama and Daddy are arguing like they did before the divorce, and even the doctors at the hospital don't know how to help Peaches get better.<br><br> It's up to G-baby to put things right. She <i>knows </i>Peaches can be strong again if she can only see that their family's love for her really is like sky.