Feeling invisible as the middle child in the wake of trauma, Ivy ponders the mystery of herself. She explores her identity through art. I can’t think of a better term to encapsulate what this book does. Queer Rep: Ivy and her best friend Taryn have a term for what happens when silence grows between them when they’ve spent a lot of time together: “pondering mysteries” (265). Ivy writes back, wondering if (read: hoping that) this pen-pal is the girl from her drawings. Along with notes urging Ivy to talk to someone, Ivy’s treasured drawings begin to resurface page-by-page in her locker. Pictures of herself and another girl holding hands. Meanwhile, Ivy also loses her secret journal-her “portable, papery hope chest” (2)-in which she has drawn pictures that no one else has seen. Displaced by the disaster and disconnected from her family, Ivy begins to feel isolated. Plot Summary: A tornado interrupts twelve-year-old Ivy’s world, destroying her family’s home. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
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