One of my favorite things about Evie is that even though she’s dealing with personal change and family upheaval, she still retains a positive attitude throughout. I MISS YOU by Jen Petro-Roy is a heartfelt middle grade novel dealing with faith, identity, and finding your way in difficult times. But Cilla isn’t writing back, and it’s time for Evie to take matters into her own hands. And she writes about the new girl in school, June, who becomes her friend, and then maybe more than a friend.Įvie could really use some advice from Cilla. She writes about her life, empty without Cilla. Forbidden from speaking to Cilla, Evie secretly sends her letters.Įvie writes about her family, torn apart and hurting.
All Evie wants is for her older sister to come back. So when the other kids at school find out about her crush, Evie sets out to find her sister, convinced that Cilla is the only one who can tell her if she should follow her heart and risk getting kicked out of her family, too, or if should start questioning her family and her faith.In this middle-grade novel, Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant sister, Cilla, away to stay with a distant great-aunt.
But Evie can't believe her parents could be that cruel, and she doesn't understand why Cilla isn't responding to her almost daily letters-letters about the school play she didn't get cast in, the distance that's growing between her best friends, and the possibility that she's developing some decidedly un-Catholic feelings about the new girl in her class. They're supposed to be good little Catholics. They're supposed to go to church and eat fish on Fridays. got pregnant during her junior year of high school-because getting pregnant is not something the Morgan girls are supposed to do. Their parents sent her away to a strict boarding school after she.
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