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"I kept interrupting my wife to read aloud funny passages from this middle-grade novel about a middle-class Nebraska family that moves to the middle of off-the-grid nowhere USA. Eventually I just said, "You're reading this after me." The author has a dry sense of humor that this weirdo connected with -- plus there were irreverent puns. Multiple positive adult role models plus a trio of tweens who didn't read like cardboard cutouts. It's one of those juvie books where a character applies behavioral tricks to handle trauma, and I'm a sucker for that low-key mental health support in literature." --Remy, Main Library Children's Room