![]() ![]() Aven’s “armless-girl problems” realistically grow thornier in this outing, touching on such tough topics as death and aging, but warm, quirky secondary characters lend support. And is Lando, her friend Zion’s popular older brother, being sweet to Aven out of pity-or something more? Bowling keenly depicts the universal awkwardness of adolescence and the particular self-consciousness of navigating a disability. Her friend Connor’s moved away and made a new friend who, like him, has Tourette’s syndrome: a girl. ![]() Aven resolves to be “blasé” and field her classmates’ pranks with aplomb, but a humiliating betrayal shakes her self-confidence. She’s entering high school, which means that 2,300 new kids will stare at her missing arms-and her feet, which do almost everything hands can (except, alas, air quotes). ![]() ★ In the sequel to Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (2017), Aven Green confronts her biggest challenge yet: surviving high school without arms.įourteen-year-old Aven has just settled into life at Stagecoach Pass with her adoptive parents when everything changes again. ![]()
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