Meet Me Halfway author-Caroline Gertler and does so with sensitivity

and does so with sensitivity

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Nia can’t say

and their sister Teagan search along the river

Meet Me Halfway author-Caroline Gertler and does so with sensitivity*SIGNED BOOKPLATES* When new classmates Mattie and Mercedes meet and realize they have the same Colombian dad, the two team up in a Parent Trapinspired misadventure to meet him for the first time in this sharp and poignant middle grade novel about the bonds that make a family. Mattie Gomez feels directionless after being uprooted from her beloved Minnesota and forced to move in with her new stepfamily in California. So when she meets a girl at her new