My Life in the Fish Tank

Barbara Dee

• Publisher: Aladdin
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781534432345
• eBook ISBN: 9781534432352

From the acclaimed author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Halfway Normal comes a "compassionate…touching" (Donna Gephart, award-winning author of The Paris Project ) and powerful story of learning how to grow, change, and survive. When twelve-year-old Zinnia Manning's older brother Gabriel is diagnosed with a mental illness, the family's world is turned upside down. Mom and Dad want Zinny, her sixteen-year-old sister, Scarlett, and her eight-year-old brother, Aiden, to keep Gabriel's condition "private"—and to Zinny that sounds the same as "secret." Which means she can't talk about it with her two best friends, who don't understand why Zinny keeps pushing them away, turning everything into a joke.It also means she can't talk about it during Lunch Club, a group run by the school guidance counselor. How did Zinny get stuck in this weird club, anyway? She certainly doesn't have anything in common with these kids—and even if she did, she'd never betray her family's secret.The only good thing about school is science class, where cool teacher Ms. Molina has them doing experiments on crayfish. And when Zinny has the chance to attend a dream marine biology camp for the summer, she doesn't know what to do. How can Zinny move forward when Gabriel—and, really, her whole family—still needs her help?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• 1. February 21
• 2. Six Months Earlier
• 3. No Month, No Date, No Time
• 4. Late November. The Day It Happened.
• 5. Last Day of School, the June Before
• 6. Un-time
• 7. Sunday after Thanksgiving, Eight Thirty P.M.
• 8. First Week of December
• 9. Third Week of December, Right before Winter Break
• 10. Christmas, Two Years Ago
• 11. Late December
• 12. After Winter Break
• 13. Later the Same Day
• 14. The Next Day
• 15. Late January
• 16. Six Years Before, Early Saturday Morning
• 17. Middle of February
• 18. Two Days Later, in Morning Homeroom
• 19. Same Day, Fourth Period
• 20. Same Day, Lunch Period
• 21. Same Day, Running to Next-Period Science
• 22. Same Day, Science Class
• 23. After School That Day
• 24. Five Years Ago
• 25. Same Day, Late Afternoon
• 26. Before Dinner
• 27. Sunday Night at Nine Forty-Five P.M.
• 28. Monday Morning
• 29. Homeroom That Morning
• 30. Monday, Lunch Period
• 31. Monday, after School
• 32. Monday Dinner
• 33. Tuesday
• 34. A Few Minutes Later
• 35. Right after Science Class
• 36. That Afternoon
• 37. A Summer Afternoon, Five and a Half Years Ago
• 38. Afternoon, Late This Past August
• 39. Wednesday, Lunch Period
• 40. Wednesday, Next Period
• 41. Wednesday, after School
• 42. That Night
• 43. Sometime Last October
• 44. Thursday Morning at Three Thirty A.M.
• 45. Thursday Morning, Outside Homeroom
• 46. In the Stairwell, on the Way to Lunch
• 47. Thursday, Lunch
• 48. Thursday and Friday Science Class
• 49. Saturday Morning at Redwoods Village
• 50. Saturday, Five Thirty P.M.
• 51. Monday Morning, before Homeroom
• 52. That Wednesday, Lunch Period
• 53. Afterward
• 54. Wednesday, Late Afternoon
• 55. Wednesday Night
• 56. Three A.M.
• 57. Thursday
• 58. Friday, Lunchtime
• 59. A Few Minutes Later
• 60. A Minute after That
• 61. After School on Friday
• 62. Ten Minutes Later
• 63. That Night
• 64. That Weekend
• 65. Monday Morning
• 66. Right after That
• 67. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
• 68. Wednesday, after School
• 69. Thursday Supper, Friday Afternoon
• 70. Saturday at Redwoods Village
• 71. Monday, Lunch Period
• 72. Rest of the Spring
• 73. The Last Weekend of School
• 74. Middle of June/Early July
• 75. July 3
• 76. What Happened Next
• 77. And What Happened after That
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright