The Sketchbook

By Kimani Upshur, M.Ed.

Sofia Reyes is sixteen, and her sketchbook holds her whole house — every room Abuela Rosa moves through, every night check, every list that keeps the Reyes family running while her parents work the hours that pay for it all. When Abuela falls and badly bruises her hip, a clinic visit and a home evaluation turn Sofia's quiet carrying into a support plan and a rota her whole family has to hold, and one page of the sketchbook — the page she has never shown anyone — holds what carrying it costs her. Around the corner booth at Mabel's Diner, Sofia and her five friends are learning to carry their own pieces of a hard November. Rooted in Isaiah 41:10, The Sketchbook is a Christian young adult novel about family, friendship, and a girl whose prayers move from rote words to honest ones as she learns she was never meant to hold the house up alone.

Written from a Christian worldview — Scripture first.

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