What happens when everything youтАЩve got to give isnтАЩt enough to save someone you love? This transformative portrayal of тАЬinjustice, frustration, and rage is wrenching and difficult to forgetтАЭ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
ItтАЩs Maine. ItтАЩs winter. And itтАЩs FREEZING STINKINтАЩ COLD! Dinah is wildly worried about her best friend, Skint. He wonтАЩt wear a coat. Refuses to wear a coat. ItтАЩs twelve degrees out, and he wonтАЩt wear a coat. So DinahтАЩs going to figure out how to help. ThatтАЩs what Dinah doesтАФshe helps. But sheтАЩs too busy trying to help to notice that sometimes, sheтАЩs doing more harm than good. Seeing the trees instead of the forest? ThatтАЩs Dinah.
And Skint isnтАЩt going to be the one to tell her. HeтАЩs a helper guy too. HeтАЩs worried about a little boy whose dad wonтАЩt let him visit his mom. HeтАЩs worried about an elderly couple in a too-cold house down the road.
But the wedge between what drives Dinah and what concerns Skint is wide enough for a big old slab of ice. Because SkintтАЩs own father is in trouble. Because SkintтАЩs mother refuses to ask for help even though sheтАЩs at her breaking point. And because Dinah might just decide toтАжhelp. She thinks sheтАЩs cracking through a sheet of ice, but whatтАЩs actually there is an entire iceberg.