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When Becca's Dad goes off to fight in a war on the other side of the planet, she does her best to live up to his expectations. But then long division hits her like an earthquake and her whole world starts to disintegrate. Suddenly she's failing math. Her baby brother gets sick, her friends turn mean and her mother's too hassled to help her. Where will she find the tools she needs to untangle the bewildering mysteries of math and put her crumbling life back together?
Becca's story can prompt conversations about learning strategies, bouncing back after failure, peer relationships, sibling rivalry, parent-child communication and coping with military deployment.
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