If you could rate your editors on Goodreads, Reka Simonsen and Julia McCarthy at Atheneum Books for Young Readers would get five stars. Thank you both for helping Lou find her way and for keeping my fictional days and coffee shops straight.

Agents should get stars too. Keely Boeving, you keep me grounded, and your first reactions to Well were priceless. Thanks for loving these characters as much as I do.

To my fellow Nashville MG writer, Kristin Tubb, you read the first five pages of this before we ever knew each other, and your encouragement was much needed and much appreciated. I’m so glad I’m an S and you’re a T so we can sit together at all the festivals.

I love research! But it can only get you so far before you need to call in the experts. Special thanks go to my early readers, Stacey Steinberg and Kate Forest, for lending their knowledge of the foster care system and the Department of Children’s Services. And to Katy Dieckhaus, for her wisdom and insight into working with children with sensory processing disorders.

Celia Krampien, your talents as a cover artist are beyond compare. Thank you for getting Lou just right and for creating a cover for this book that is so beautiful it sings.

Dear children of mine, Charlie, Jonas, and Cora: None of you were in school yet when this book was written. Thanks for playing nicely so I could do it. I promise to make you cinnamon rolls every Saturday for the rest of your lives.

Dear husband of mine: Thanks for marrying this theater girl and appreciating my drama. If you wondered how I became the plot-whisperer, now you know.

A special note to the teachers and librarians: thank you for championing my storytelling from the very beginning! Your support for Roll with It has made me braver as a writer. I am so grateful to you for getting my stories into the hands of the kids who need them and for working tirelessly in the classroom every single day.

Lastly, this book is for the kids living with invisible disabilities. I see you. You are not alone. Here’s a not-so-secret secret: we’re all still figuring ourselves out. Remember, there is no normal.

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About the Author

Photo courtesy of Bethany Rogers

Jamie Sumner is the author of Roll with It. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at jamie-sumner.com.

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