Newfangled

Olive is reluctant to face her first day at a new school where everyone else already knows each other. This year, she’s the new girl, and she doesn’t know if that is a good or a bad thing. Should she stick with Trish and Jacey, the obvious mean girls at R&R who have welcomed her into their group, or take a risk and join the Mashables, a quick-witted group of unlikely friends? And why are her friends from church being so distant?

Navigating through life as a twelve-year-old girl growing up in Southern California can be tricky. Embracing the ginger, sci-fi loving, introverted girl God created her to be — well that’s even trickier. Join Olive on her quest to figure out who God wants her to be, while dealing with the social pressures and problems she encounters at school, and in life in general.