Fight + Flight

Written by Jules Machias

Two very different middle schoolers help each other through illness and panic.

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400 pages· ~760L· AR ~4.9

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Bookroo's summary

Avery lives for her dirt bike and drums, until a diagnosis of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome fills her days with physical therapy and worry. Sarah pours her intense panic attacks into her art, but nothing seems to help. When a terrifying event at school, later revealed to be an active-shooter drill, throws them together, the two girls form a friendship that changes how they see their own weaknesses.

From the publisher

2023 Rainbow List BookJules Machias, author of Indie Next List Pick Both Can Be True, delivers another inspiring story about how an unexpected friendship transforms the lives of two middle schoolers.Avery Hart lives for the thrill and speed of her dirt bike and the pounding thump of her drum kit. But after she's diagnosed with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disease that affects her joints, Avery splits her time between endless physical therapy and worrying that her fun and independence are over for good.Sarah Bell is familiar with worry, too. For months, she's been having intense panic attacks. No matter how much she pours her anxiety into making art, she can't seem to get a grip on it, and she's starting to wonder if she'll be this way forever.Just as both girls are reaching peak fear about what their futures hold, their present takes a terrifying turn when their school is seemingly attacked by gunmen. Though they later learn it was an active shooter drill, the traumatic experience bonds the girls together in a friendship that will change the way they view their perceived weaknesses--and help them find strength, and more, in each other.

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