About the book:

Just 42 Miles. That’s how far it is from the downtown Cincinnati apartment where JoEllen lives with her mom to the old family farm where she spends weekends with her dad. But to her, these two homes are worlds apart. In the city, she’s Ellen, who hangs out with her girlfriends, plays the sax, and loves old movies. In the country, she’s Joey, who rides horses with her cousin, Hayden, goes fishing, and listens to bluegrass. Now—with her thirteenth birthday approaching—she needs to decide: Where do her loyalties lie? Who is the real JoEllen?

Linked free-verse poems combine with scrapbook-style illustrations to create the vivid portrait of a girl who is trying to find herself amid the pieces of her life.

Clarion Books

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