Marley Won't Give Up!

Marley, a seventh-grader at Hopeville Middle School, is fighting several battles at once. She refuses to accept that her mother has gone missing during a secret military mission. Instead, she celebrates her mom's courage in a school project to honor Women Warriors and sends her hopeful but, as-yet, unanswered messages almost every day. Marley tries to ignore constant and hurtful bullying from the town's meanest and richest girl, or at least to follow her grandmother's advice and respond wit...