Far from Fair

Twelve-year-old Odette Zaykowski just wishes things were a little more fair in this middle grade novel from Elana K Arnold. Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren’t Fair. At the top of the list is her parents’ decision to take the family on the road in an ugly RV they’ve nicknamed the Coach. There’s nothing fair about leaving California and living in the cramped Coach with her par ents and exasperating younger brother, sharing one stupid cell phone among the four of them. And there’s definitely nothing fair about what they find when they reach Grandma Sissy’s house, hundreds of miles later. Most days it seems as if everything in Odette’s life is far from fair. Is there a way for her to make things right? With warmth and sensitivity, Elana K. Arnold makes the difficult topics of terminal illness and the right to die accessible to young readers. AUTHOR: Elana K. Arnold completed her M.A. in Creative Writing/Fiction at the University of California, Davis. She grew up in Southern California, where she was lucky enough to have a family who let her read as many books as she wanted. She is the author of several young adult novels as well as the middle-grade novels ‘The Question of Miracles’ and ‘Far from Fair’. Visit her website at www.elanakarnold.com. REVIEWS: ‘A tearjerker with a brain, this could prompt discussion not only of the right to die issue but also power and fairness. ’ The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books