Sally J. Pla is the award-winning author of three acclaimed novels, The Someday Birds, Stanley Will Probably Be Fine, and The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn, and a picture book, Benji, the Bad Day, and Me. She has English degrees from Colgate and Penn State and has worked as a business journalist and in public education. Sally, who's neurodivergent, lives with her family near lots of lemon trees in Southern California. She believes in the beauty of difference and that we are all stars shining with different lights. Visit her online at sallyjpla.com.

Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.