Winner of the Lambda Literary Award

The Thing About Jellyfish meets Raymie Nightingale in this tender middle grade novel from Lisa Jenn Bigelow, acclaimed author of Drum Roll, Please.

Hazel knows a lot about the world. That's because when she's not hanging with her best friend, taking care of her dog, or helping care for the goats on her family's farm, she loves reading through dusty encyclopedias.

But even Hazel doesn't have answers for the questions awaiting her as she enters eighth grade. What if no one at her new school gets her, and she doesn't make any friends? What's going to happen to one of her moms, who's pregnant again after having two miscarriages? Why does everything have to change when life was already perfectly fine?

As Hazel struggles to cope, she'll come to realize that sometimes you have to look within yourself--instead of the pages of a book--to find the answer to life's most important questions.

Author: Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780062791177
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 508360 / Hazel's Theory of Evolution


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 09/09/2019
Booklist 10/01/2019 pg. 80
School Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 76

About the Author
Bigelow, Lisa Jenn: - Lisa Jenn Bigelow grew up in Kalamazoo and still considers the Mitten State home. Lisa's young adult novel, Starting from Here, was named a Rainbow List Top Ten Book by the American Library Association. Drum Roll, Please is her middle grade debut. When she isn't writing, she serves as a youth librarian in the Chicago suburbs. Visit her online at www.lisajennbigelow.com.