Glenna Coleman's Reviews > Finding Normal

Temple's life, along with her family's, is upended when a severe storm causes flooding in their home. Others are affected, too. Temple and her family lost all of their furniture and appliances, their home needs to be gutted the the flood line and rebuilt, but their neighbors, whose house is two stories, offer to let them live there while they make repairs. Without flood insurance, Temple's parents can no longer afford private school tuition, so Temple changes to the local middle school. When Temple sees the impact of the flooding on local families, she wants to help. She plans a fundraiser, but it quickly becomes apparent that she can't do it all alone, so she enlists the help of two of her new friends. Temple learns about friendship and what truly matters.

For a book about flood survivors learning to deal with change and finding new connections as well as planning a huge fundraising event for flood survivors, I found the book strangely lacking in connections and strong emotions. I kept expecting details when none were given and a lot of the important decisions and emotion seemed to have happened 'off stage,' so to speak.