Her brother is out of control, her family’s energies are all spent on him. Then the girls turn on Mary, and suddenly, she doesn’t have a safety zone. When two girls Mary thought were her friends decide to slam another girl online, Mary tries to look the other way. But now he wants to hang out with her, and listen. Mary thought Griff was too cool, too popular for her. It seems the only person who might understand is Griffen Connolly, whose older sister runs with Jonny in the wrong crowd.

Starting seventh grade is tough enough without the upheaval her brother is bringing to their family. Secrets like her older brother, Jonny’s, drug use. Mary O’Malley is tired of keeping secrets. Mary Underwater is an empowering tale of persistence, heroism, and hope from a luminous new voice in middle-grade fiction. Gaining courage from her heroine, Joan of Arc, Mary vows to pilot a sub across the Chesapeake Bay, risking her life in a modern crusade to save herself. She has a plan: build a real submarine, like the model she’s been making with Kip Dwyer, the secretly sweet class clown. And if she can’t get a good grade on her science project, she’ll fail her favorite class.īut Mary doesn’t want to be a victim anymore. Her violent father is home from prison, and the social worker is suspicious of her new bruises.

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