Shy? Nervous? Anxious?
As a 13-year-old everything is changing. Feelings are more intense, and there are new daily challenges. It becomes obvious that the things most kids find simple are not simple for you.
Going for a walk or entering someplace you’ve never been to makes your heart pound. It’s embarrassing when your hands and voice shake when meeting people. If you finally get the nerve to talk with someone, later you replay everything in your mind, all night long. You might like having friends, but that would require doing things.
Why can’t your family understand you don’t want to be this way and quit pushing you so hard to be like other kids?
If this just described you, then you will be able to relate to my book titled, FETCH, because it also describes Frankie.
The first review posted for FETCH, and I LOVE it!
“Fetch:Hope & Horses” is a great read.Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2024
I was almost immediately able to identify with Frankie. Her story is filled with real life ups and downs of a teenager who suffers from panic attacks. She is likeable and her association with the horse , Fetch, is incredible. I enjoyed the entirety of her journey with her friends, family, and Fetch. The author brings the characters to life in an easy flowing manner that makes reading the book very enjoyable. There is always another exciting event in Frankie’s life that adds to the story. I cannot wait for the next book.
And here is part of another reader’s WONDERFUL review that captures Frankie’s dilemma:
Frankie Learns How to Cope With Anxiety — One Breath at a Time Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024
“Fetch” is a story about 13-year-old Frankie who was hoping for a new start when her family moved from Tennessee to Montana. But Frankie finds she has taken her anxieties with her — along with the memories of the worst day of her life.
The reader is not made aware of what happened that day until much later in the book, leaving us wondering and affording us just a little bit of the same angst that Frankie feels constantly in her life. For Frankie, everything in her life is overwhelming. Everything in her life is simply too hard. Every day she just wants to be left alone because life is too hard around other people. Frankie is sure she is different from everybody else and that there is no place in the world where she fits.
But throughout the book, Frankie is introduced to other people, some who also have to overcome their fears and loneliness — a horse, new friends, kind neighbors, mentors, and the constant of every 13-year-old girl’s life — a boy she like-likes. And Frankie begins to believe that maybe, just maybe, she will learn to fit in.
FETCH is for sale now on Amazon and other online bookstores like Barnes and Noble, along with SHUFFLE (book 1 in the series, previously titled ONLY MY HORSES KNOW)
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