Intensifying Annabelle’s isolation is her “Five-Mile-Radius Rule,” which she uses to keep friends at a distance.
Annabelle largely shoulders the burden alone: her father leaves on a business trip, her teenage brother routinely escapes to friends’ houses, and her younger sister’s nightmares about death-by-hoarding are making her physically ill. At 12, Annabelle copes with her mother’s obsession with her “collections”-old newspapers, milk jugs, canned vegetables-that are stacked throughout the house. Lambert’s gutsy and affecting first novel tackles a topic not frequently discussed in middle grade fiction: living with a parent who’s a hoarder.
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