Andi Byrd is dealing with the loss of her mother and having to move in with her aunt and uncle. Her aunt is expecting a baby, so Andi wonders how she will fit in to their family. Andi is sent off to music camp for the summer. She plays trumpet, mostly by sound, she is not as skilled at reading music.
Zora Lee Johnson has been to music camp many years and she is skilled enough to keep her first chair flute every week. Zora's parents have super high expectations for her and she feels like she has so much pressure to achieve(which she deals with by cutting), but her dreams may include something different, like dancing.
Both girls end up in the same cabin and are put together for Zora to help Andi in reading and learning the music. As they begin working together, each one helps the other in ways they never expected.
The book is told in two voices, Andi and Zora. However, there is actually a third voice, the camp. It is told in verse in-between the main two voices. Lockington also wrote For Black Girls Like Me.
I like the fact that this book deals with loss (death of a parent), pressure from parents, and again that you never know what people are going through and we should all be kind.
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