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    Not If I Can Help It (Scholastic Gold)
    Not If I Can Help It (Scholastic Gold)
    Not If I Can Help It (Scholastic Gold)
    Audiobook5 hours

    Not If I Can Help It (Scholastic Gold)

    Written by Carolyn Mackler

    Narrated by Taylor Meskimen

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From award-winning Carolyn Mackler, the story of Willa, who has been living with Sensory Processing Disorder but is thrown for a BIG loop when her dad announces he's dating Willa's best friend's mom.

    Willa likes certain things to be certain ways. Her socks have to be soft . . . and definitely can't have irritating tags on the inside. She loves the crunch of popcorn and nachos . . but is grossed out by the crunch of a baby carrot. And slimy foods? Those are the worst.

    Willa can manage all these things -- but there are some things she can't deal with, like her father's big news. He's been keeping a big secret from her . . . that he's been dating the mom of Willa's best friend Ruby. Willa does NOT like the idea of them being together. And she does NOT like the idea of combining families. And she does NOT like the idea of her best friend becoming her sister overnight. Will she go along with all of these changes? NOT if she can help it!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateJul 30, 2019
    ISBN9781338561784
    Not If I Can Help It (Scholastic Gold)
    Author

    Carolyn Mackler

    Carolyn Mackler is the author of the award-winning teen novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; The Future of Us, coauthored with Jay Asher; Tangled; Love and Other Four-Letter Words; Vegan Virgin Valentine; and Guyaholic. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

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    • 5/5
      What a great book good for kids and very nice kids in the book great roll model
    • 5/5
      I love this book because Willa is so awesome in everything she does, living with sensory processing disorder, and she works through all the hard things, and by the end, she is rewarded. I love the way the author made me feel all the feelings Willa had as she had them. I love this book!
    • 5/5
      Such a great book! A great job of perceiving the drama of fifth grade And how a girls secretive side and every day side merge
    • 4/5
      Really good book about a girl named Willa! She finds out that her dad is dating her best friends MOM. I really liked it.