A heartwarming middle-grade story from the critically acclaimed author Heather Smith featuring Tig, a young girl struggling to find peace within herself and in her new family. For fans of Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass and Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
After months of living without electricity or parents, Tig and Peter are forced to move in with their Uncle Scott and his partner, Manny. The transition from down-and-out to picture-perfect isn't easy, especially in pristine Wensleydale with the idyllic couple and their beautiful home.
Tig, with Peter's support, decides to make their new life messy, starting with daily arguments and her plans to become a competitive cheese racer. She'll run circles around her new guardians, outrun a wheel of cheese, and leave the past buried in her dust.
But things don't always go as planned, and Tig must decide what to truly leave behind in order to move forward.
WINNER
| 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award - Young People’s Literature - Text
WINNER
| 2025 The Northern Lights Book Awards - Middle Grade Book of the Year
SELECTION
| 2025 Maine Student Book Award
HONOR
| 2025 Red Maple Award
SHORTLIST
| 2025 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award
SHORTLIST
| 2025 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) - Northern Lights Award
SHORTLIST
| 2025 National Chapter IODE Violet Downey Award
FINALIST
| 2024 Cybil Award for Elementary/Middle Grade Fiction
HEATHER SMITH is the author of four published YA novels; three middle-grade novels, the most recent of which, Tig, has received two starred reviews and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the OLA Red Maple Award; and seven picture books: Angus All Aglow, A Plan for Pops, The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden, Slowpoke the Bell Island Mine Horse, Annie’s Cat is Sad, Waking Ben Doldrums and Granny Left Me a Rocket Ship. The books in her body of work have either won or been shortlisted for virtually every Canadian children's literature prize, and been translated into eight languages. She lives with her family in Waterloo, Ontario.
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A heartwarming middle-grade story from the critically acclaimed author Heather Smith featuring Tig, a young girl struggling to find peace within herself and in her new family. For fans of Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass and Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
After months of living without electricity or parents, Tig and Peter are forced to move in with their Uncle Scott and his partner, Manny. The transition from down-and-out to picture-perfect isn't easy, especially in pristine Wensleydale with the idyllic couple and their beautiful home.
Tig, with Peter's support, decides to make their new life messy, starting with daily arguments and her plans to become a competitive cheese racer. She'll run circles around her new guardians, outrun a wheel of cheese, and leave the past buried in her dust.
But things don't always go as planned, and Tig must decide what to truly leave behind in order to move forward.
Awards
WINNER
| 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award - Young People’s Literature - Text
WINNER
| 2025 The Northern Lights Book Awards - Middle Grade Book of the Year
SELECTION
| 2025 Maine Student Book Award
HONOR
| 2025 Red Maple Award
SHORTLIST
| 2025 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award
SHORTLIST
| 2025 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) - Northern Lights Award
SHORTLIST
| 2025 National Chapter IODE Violet Downey Award
FINALIST
| 2024 Cybil Award for Elementary/Middle Grade Fiction
HEATHER SMITH is the author of four published YA novels; three middle-grade novels, the most recent of which, Tig, has received two starred reviews and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the OLA Red Maple Award; and seven picture books: Angus All Aglow, A Plan for Pops, The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden, Slowpoke the Bell Island Mine Horse, Annie’s Cat is Sad, Waking Ben Doldrums and Granny Left Me a Rocket Ship. The books in her body of work have either won or been shortlisted for virtually every Canadian children's literature prize, and been translated into eight languages. She lives with her family in Waterloo, Ontario.
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