Just Do This One Thing for Me

Written by Laura Zimmermann

When her scheming mother vanishes, a teen must hold her siblings together.

3.6 Goodreads · 885 ratings

320 pages· 840L· AR ~5.4

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Bookroo's summary

Seventeen-year-old Drew has always done the "one thing" her con-artist mother asks, which means raising her younger sister and brother. When their mother disappears on the way to a New Year's Eve concert in Mexico and her schemes start to unravel, Drew must choose between walking away from the mess and keeping the family together through a Wisconsin winter. Funny, heartbreaking and suspenseful.

From the publisher

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and sneaky suspenseful, Just Do This One Thing for Me is a timely novel about a rule-following daughter trying to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears. “Just do this one thing for me.” Drew’s mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew’s seventeen years, and Drew knows that “one thing” really means all the necessary things her mother thinks are boring, including taking care of her fifteen-year-old sister and eight-year-old brother. In fact, Drew is the closest thing to a responsible adult they’ve ever known. When their mother disappears on the way to a New Year’s Eve concert in Mexico and her schemes start unraveling, Drew is faced with a choice: Follow the rules, do the responsible thing, and walk away–alone–from her mother’s mess. Or hope the weather stays cold, keep the cons going, and just maybe hold her family together.

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