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Three years after my first book was published, in June of 2023, I finished junior high school. I was older, I had experienced more, and I had learned so much since I was that ten-year-old girl sitting at the kitchen table dreaming up my first book. And I knew I wasn’t finished. I wanted to write another one. This time, I wanted to create a Junior High Edition of Strong, Bold, and Courageous—a book that spoke to kids who were navigating the very things I had just experienced m

It all started with a really hard year. Toward the end of fourth grade in 2019, I was going through a lot. Fourth grade had been tough in ways I didn’t really know how to explain at the time. I was learning some of life’s harder lessons—about friendship, gossip, bullying, kindness, and what it feels like when people don’t always treat you the way you hope they will. I was also beginning to notice things happening around me that were bigger than just my own experiences. I saw