How to Disappear Completely - Ali Standish
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Children
When her beloved gram dies, Emma feels lost. Gram was the only one in the family who really understood dreamy Emma, and always tried to fill her world with magic, like by showing her to a secret grove where fairies left her gifts. But now Grans gone, and Emmas begun to notice white spots appearing on her skin., Soon after starting at a new school, she is diagnosed with vitiligo, a disease that makes patches of her skin lose their color. Suddenly, the magic in Emmas world has been replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments, and Emma is starting to feel like shes been cursed., But when an empty journal mysteriously appears in the grove, new questions emerge. Who left it for Emma and why? And just what is her story going to be, now that everything is so different? A stirring exploration of the ways that life transforms us and how we learn to let go of what we must, while still holding fast to who we are.
