The narrative focus stays tightly with Lulu’s point of view, her understanding of the world informing her decisions. For two weeks, Lulu manages to keep up the routine (food bank, laundromat, and picking up Selena from her after-school program), fending off queries about her dad. They’ve been in an RV park in Montana since driving up from Texas, where the girls’ mother died after a devastating, financially ruinous illness. The girls’ father disappears one morning from the Chevy Suburban in which he, Lulu, and Selena live. Twelve-year-old Lulu must care for her little sister when they are left homeless and alone. Lulu knows that all it takes is one slip-up for their secret to come spilling out, for Lulu and Serena to be separated, and for the good things that have been happening in school to be lost.īut family is all around us, and Lulu must learn to trust her new friends and community to save those she loves and to finally find her true home. But as the days add up, with no sign of Daddy, Lulu struggles to take care of the responsibilities they used to manage as a family. Daddy has gone away once before and he came back. Hiding where you live-and that your Daddy has gone missing-is harder.Īt first Lulu isn’t worried.
As Daddy always says, “it’s best if we keep it to ourselves,” and so they have. Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. Two sisters struggle to keep their father’s disappearance a secret in this tender middle grade novel that’s perfect for fans of Katherine Applegate and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. “A poignant and powerful reminder that homelessness is not hopelessness.” -Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky
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