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Reviewed on February 28, 2025 | Middle Grade
Gr 3–7—Larsen plucks Quagmire Tiarello from the ensemble cast of her debut novel, Playing Through the Turnaround, to give him a star turn in her second one. As he joins Cassie (his crush from the earlier book) in developing a radio play at the YMCA, his mother shows up suddenly and takes him away. Quag is used to his mother spinning through mental health cycles, and he's mostly learned how to deal with it; but ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More