Robin talks with Ivy about her long distance engagement with her girlfriend Jessa, giving Ivy some sense of who she might be becoming and showing her a model for how to build a relationship that’s different from the heterosexual ones she’s known.Īt the same time, Ivy is very reluctant to talk with her family about her feelings – partly because her parents are already at maximum stress level figuring out their living situation, dealing with insurance matters, and raising two infant twin sons. Ivy luckily finds support, including from Robin, the owner of the B&B where her family makes their temporary home until their house is rebuilt. Who knows Ivy’s secret? Ivy begins to suspect – then hope – that it might be a classmate, on whom Ivy is starting to develop what might be called a crush. Then Ivy’s drawings start showing up inside her locker at school, one by one. Except one – Ivy saves her secret notebook, but in the ensuing chaos at the nearest shelter, it’s lost. Her family is safe, though they’ve lost all their posessions. Ivy is twelve and just starting to figure herself out when the unthinkable happens: a tornado hits their town, and Ivy’s whole house is destroyed. Twelve-year-old Ivy loves to draw, and has a secret notebook of drawings she has never shown anyone – depicting two girls holding hands. It’s a gentle, sensitive portrayal of a young girl handling her first crush, and a same-sex crush at that, all while her family deals with upheaval. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the Worldby Ashley Herring Blake is probably the only LGBTQ book I’ve come across that is geared to middle-grade readers.
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