Amelia Gray Is Almost Okay, Jessica Brody
Amelia Gray Is Almost Okay, Jessica Brody
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Amelia Gray Is Almost Okay

Author: Jessica Brody

Narrator: Suzy Jackson

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2023


Synopsis

When you can choose to be anyone, how do you know who you really are? From the author of Better You Than Me and I Speak Boy comes another fun and relatable book about new experiences and how staying true to yourself is the best way to be okay.

Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has changed schools thirty-nine times (!!!) because of her dad’s job, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for making friends. But that’s okay. Amelia loves her “life on the go” with Dad and their adorable supermutt, Biscotti. She’s been in enough middle schools to know that friendships are messy, and who needs that?

But when her dad announces that he wants to stay in their new town for the whole summer—maybe even forever—Amelia realizes she’s going to have to do the one thing she’s never had to do: fit in.

So she gives herself not one but three total makeovers, to try out a few personalities and hopefully find her “thing.” Is she Amie, a confident track star? Mellie, a serious journalist? Or Lia, a bold theater kid?

Juggling three identities is hard, and Amelia soon finds herself caught in the kind of friendship drama she has always managed to avoid. Yet despite her best efforts, she still can’t answer the most important question of all: Who is the real Amelia Gray?

About The Author

Jessica Brody is the author of I Speak Boy, Better You Than Me, and Addie Bell's Shortcut to Growing Up as well as several books for teens, including Sky Without Stars, Between Burning Worlds, The Geography of Lost Things, A Week of Mondays, and 52 Reasons to Hate My Father. She also writes the Descendants: School of Secrets series, based on the hit Disney Channel original movie Descendants. She lives near Portland, Oregon, with her husband and three very barky dogs who will do anything for cheese. Visit Jessica online at JessicaBrody.com and follow @JessicaBrody on Instagram and Twitter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on December 08, 2023

AMELIA GRAY IS ALMOST OKAY is a fun, upbeat, heartfelt novel about a girl who's desperate to figure out who she is. Our heroine is utterly likable. She's kind, thoughtful, brave, and just all-around endearing. (Which isn't to say she's perfect or doesn't make mistakes. She isn't and she does.) Her r......more

Goodreads review by Nasya on August 07, 2023

This book was incredible! I really enjoyed it! I highly recommend this book!......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on March 02, 2024

"Finding Amelia" is a heartwarming and insightful journey into the life of twelve-year-old Amelia Gray. This realistic fiction novel, set in the present day, will resonate deeply with middle-grade readers through its exploration of identity, friendship, and family. Amelia's story is one of constant c......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel on September 17, 2023

Absolutely loved the book. (Which made me laugh, cry, rage...) I just finished it yesterday and... OH MY GOD, that book was so good. Amelia Gray is such a complex character. She's not just a whiny, stuck-up girl who complains everytime she has to leave. Sure, she complained a little when switching her......more

Goodreads review by Emily on June 30, 2023

Amelia Gray is Almost Okay is a sweet, funny look at what it means to be a young girl on the verge of finding out everything, but also not wanting anything to change. In a time when she could have been bitter about how often she moved, how she never knew her mom, and how her life is nothing like any......more


Quotes

"A feel-good story with a lovable protagonist, this well-paced middle-grade novel is engaging and enjoyable in equal measure."—Booklist

"This light comedy of errors from features laugh-aloud shenanigans and tender insights." —Publishers Weekly