Hazel's Theory of Evolution

By Lisa Jenn Bigelow

Hazel knows a lot about the world.  That's because when she's not hanging out with her best friend or helping care for the goats on her family's farm, she loves reading through dusty old encyclopedias.  But even Hazel doesn't have answers for the questions awaiting her as she enters eighth grade.

She has to attend a new school where she worries no one will understand her.  And at home she discovers one of her moms is pregnant.  Hazel can't wait to be a big sister, but her mom has already miscarried twice.  Hazel fears it might happen again.

Hazel soon realizes that if the answers to life's most important questions can't be found in a book, she'll have to find them within herself.