

But, who wants to talk about what you do in the bathroom? And worst of all, everyone wants her to talk about it-her overprotective mom, her best friend, and most annoyingly her gastroenterologist, who keeps trying to get her to go to a support group for kids with similar chronic illnesses.

After nearly having an accident of the lavatorial variety in gym class, Al finds herself getting a colonoscopy and an answer-she has Crohn’s disease.īut rather than solving all her problems, Al's diagnosis just makes everything worse. She’s almost definitely 100% sure she likes girls. Her stomach hurts all the time and she has no idea why.Ģ. Twelve-year-old Al Schneider is too scared to talk about the two biggest things in her life:ġ. A hilariously honest book about surviving middle school while navigating a chronic illness from the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Almost Flying.
