Just Like Me

Written by Nancy J. Cavanaugh

Adopted girls navigate summer camp, unlikely friendships, and self-discovery.

3.9 Goodreads · 526 ratings

256 pages· 900L

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Bookroo's summary

At Camp Little Big Lake, three adopted girls, not truly sisters but bound by a shared past, face a summer of bonding and self-discovery. Amidst camp competitions and clashing personalities, they must journal their experiences for an adoption agency newsletter. As they navigate friendships and cultural differences, the question looms: where do they truly belong? This summer camp adventure, filled with humor and heart, explores the universal struggle of finding one's place in the world.

From the publisher

Just Like Me is the perfect book for middle school girls and doubles as an adoption book for kids, as three adopted sisters navigate their relationship with one another while at summer camp.From the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet, comes a funny, uplifting summer camp story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, making this the perfect growing up book for girls. Told through a mix of traditional narrative and journal entries, don’t miss this funny, surprisingly sweet summer read!Who eats Cheetos with chopsticks?! Avery and Becca, my “Chinese Sisters,” that’s who. We’re not really sisters–we were just adopted from the same orphanage. And we’re nothing alike. They like egg rolls, and I like pizza. They wave around Chinese fans, and I pretend like I don’t know them.Which is not easy since we’re all going to summer camp to “bond.” (Thanks, Mom.) To make everything worse, we have to journal about our time at camp so the adoption agency can do some kind of “where are they now” newsletter. I’ll tell you where I am: At Camp Little Big Lake in a cabin with five other girls who aren’t getting along, competing for a camp trophy and losing (badly), wondering how I got here…and where I belong.Told through a mix of traditional narrative and journal entries, don’t miss this funny, surprisingly sweet summer read!”A tender and honest story about a girl trying to find her place in the world, and the thread that connects us all.”–Liesl Shurtliff, author of Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin “A heartwarming story about the universal struggle of yearning to be an individual while longing to fit in.”–Karen Harrington, author of Sure Kinds of Crazy

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