Awake Format:Hardcover and authentically told with the

and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid

when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death

she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems

but he’s also the enemy

Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D

Awake Format:Hardcover and authentically told with theIn a big, big city on a busy street at the tipity top of a tall building lives a girl. One night, after a story, a snuggle, and one last sip of water, she was getting so sleepy when out of the corner of her eye A SPIDER! The girl was no longer sleepy. Now, she was . . . Awake. But what is she to do? Now she must face her fear and solve the biggest problem she's ever faced: how to get the spider out of her room without actually having to go near it.