"When twelve-year-old Zinna Manning's older brother, Gabriel, is diagnosed with a mental illness, their family's world is turned upside down. Mom and Dad want Zinny, her sixteen-year-old sister, Scarlett, and her eight-year-old brother. Aiden, to keep Gabriel's condition 'private'---and to Zinny that sounds the same as 'secret.' Which means she can't talk about it with her two best friends, who don't understand why Zinny keeps pushing them away and turns everything into a joke. It also means she can't talk about it during Lunch Club, a group run by the school guidance counselor. How did Zinny get stuck in this weird club, anyway? She certainly doesn't have anything in common with these kids. Even if she did, she'd never betray her family's secret. The only good thing about school is science class, where cool teacher Ms. Melina has them doing experiments on crayfish. But when Zinny has the chance to attend a dream marine biology program for the summer, she doesn't know what to do. How can Zinny move forward when Gabriel--and really, her whole family--still needs her help? From the author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Halfway Normal comes a powerful and moving story of learning how to grow, change, and survive."------Publisher

Originally published in 2020.