Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs
Laurie Morrison’s Saint Ivy is a thoughtful middle-grade novel about caring for others and for yourself––and what it truly means to be kind and vulnerable.

Thirteen-year-old Ivy Campbell has always been a good kid: She supports her soccer-star brother, bakes with her nana, and puts her friends’ needs before her own. So of course, Ivy is 100 percent supportive when her mom decides to be a gestational surrogate, carrying and giving birth to her friends’ baby.

But when Ivy finds out the surrogacy treatment worked and her mom is pregnant—and has been for weeks—she’s shocked that she’s jealous and worried about what others will think. And most of all, she’s ashamed that she isn’t reacting to this news in the right way. The Ivy way. Ivy is determined to prove to herself that she’s just as unselfish as she’s always believed, and she gets the chance to do that when she receives an anonymous email from someone who needs her help.

But the more Ivy dives into helping this anonymous person, the further she gets from the people she loves—and from the person who she wants to be.

“Feelings, life, and people are allowed to be complicated in beautiful ways in this page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A keenly observed portrait of a girl who goes way overboard on a good thing.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
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Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs
Laurie Morrison’s Saint Ivy is a thoughtful middle-grade novel about caring for others and for yourself––and what it truly means to be kind and vulnerable.

Thirteen-year-old Ivy Campbell has always been a good kid: She supports her soccer-star brother, bakes with her nana, and puts her friends’ needs before her own. So of course, Ivy is 100 percent supportive when her mom decides to be a gestational surrogate, carrying and giving birth to her friends’ baby.

But when Ivy finds out the surrogacy treatment worked and her mom is pregnant—and has been for weeks—she’s shocked that she’s jealous and worried about what others will think. And most of all, she’s ashamed that she isn’t reacting to this news in the right way. The Ivy way. Ivy is determined to prove to herself that she’s just as unselfish as she’s always believed, and she gets the chance to do that when she receives an anonymous email from someone who needs her help.

But the more Ivy dives into helping this anonymous person, the further she gets from the people she loves—and from the person who she wants to be.

“Feelings, life, and people are allowed to be complicated in beautiful ways in this page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A keenly observed portrait of a girl who goes way overboard on a good thing.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
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Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs

Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs

by Laurie Morrison
Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs

Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs

by Laurie Morrison

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Laurie Morrison’s Saint Ivy is a thoughtful middle-grade novel about caring for others and for yourself––and what it truly means to be kind and vulnerable.

Thirteen-year-old Ivy Campbell has always been a good kid: She supports her soccer-star brother, bakes with her nana, and puts her friends’ needs before her own. So of course, Ivy is 100 percent supportive when her mom decides to be a gestational surrogate, carrying and giving birth to her friends’ baby.

But when Ivy finds out the surrogacy treatment worked and her mom is pregnant—and has been for weeks—she’s shocked that she’s jealous and worried about what others will think. And most of all, she’s ashamed that she isn’t reacting to this news in the right way. The Ivy way. Ivy is determined to prove to herself that she’s just as unselfish as she’s always believed, and she gets the chance to do that when she receives an anonymous email from someone who needs her help.

But the more Ivy dives into helping this anonymous person, the further she gets from the people she loves—and from the person who she wants to be.

“Feelings, life, and people are allowed to be complicated in beautiful ways in this page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A keenly observed portrait of a girl who goes way overboard on a good thing.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781419741265
Publisher: Amulet Paperbacks
Publication date: 05/10/2022
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Laurie Morrison taught middle school for ten years before writing Every Shiny Thing, her middle-grade debut with co-author Cordelia Jensen. She is also the author of Up for Air, Saint Ivy, and Coming Up Short. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.
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