Check out Jamie Sumner’s author webpage, where you can sign up to receive her newsletter and download a free discussion guide. Roll With It has starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. Talk this up to your teacher visitors, and suggest they take a look at it (I’m always ready to push good Summer Reading list ideas). Hand this to any of your realistic fiction readers, especially the kids that love Aven’s adventures in Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling or Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind for your baking aficionados, give to readers who loved Jessie Janowitz’s The Doughnut Fix/ The Doughnut King, and Anna Meriano’s Love Sugar Magic books. Ellie’s grandparents and mother emerge as realistic, three-dimensional characters with big concerns of their own: family health, an absent spouse, bills, bills, bills.Ī story about fitting in and standing out, following a dream and making your own way, Ellie is a character you want to cheer for and your kids will want to hang out with. Her friends Coralee and Bert have fully-realized backstories, giving them life beyond being Ellie’s friends in the background. How does she cope? She lets you know what’s going on! Her voice is strong and clear, in her fantastic tweenage snark and honesty. On top of that, she has the struggles that come with being in a school ill-equipped to work with her needs, and being the new kid in the middle of a school year. She’s a tween on the verge of teenhood, coping with adolescent feelings and frustrations on top of family worries, like her grandfather’s increasing dementia, concern about her grandmother, and a father that she’s disappointed in and hurt by.
Inspired by her son, Roll With It is author Jamie Sumner’s first novel, and with it, she has given us a main character who is upbeat, smart, funny, and darned independent. Ellie starts school and a new life in Oklahoma, befriending Coralee and Bert schoolmates who have their own eccentric flairs, and taking on a school that isn’t ready for Ellie. Ellie’s grandmother is thrilled to have her family for a visit, but makes it clear that she’s not putting her husband into a home. After her grandfather, who has dementia, drives his car into a local supermarket, Ellie’s mom packs up and heads to Eufala, Oklahoma, to live with and help out. Ellie also has cerebral palsy, or CP, which keeps her wheelchair-bound, but never out of the game. She’s frustrated by her overprotective mom, having to go to the bathroom at school with the help of an aide, and her father, who exists in theory, not so much in practice. And to all the kids living with a disability: You are amazing.
She writes letters to famous chefs and cookbook authors, asking questions to make her own art better. In loving memory of Elmer and Bradayou gave me grit and magic.
It all feels like one challenge too many, until Ellie starts to make her first-ever friends.Roll With It, by Jamie Sumner, (Oct. Except she's not just the new kid-she's the new kid in the wheelchair who lives in the trailer park on the wrong side of town. If she's not writing fan letters to her favorite celebrity chefs, she's practicing recipes on her well-meaning, if overworked, mother.īut when Ellie and her mom move so they can help take care of her ailing grandpa, Ellie has to start all over again in a new town at a new school.
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The thing is, Ellie has big dreams: She might be eating Stouffer's for dinner, but one day she's going to be a professional baker. That surprises some people, who see a kid in a wheelchair and think she's going to be all sunshine and cuddles. In the tradition of Wonder and Out of My Mind, this big-hearted middle grade debut tells the story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected turn when she moves to a new town.Įllie's a girl who tells it like it is.
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