The Day Alexander Made a Spreadsheet for Feelings

Alexander did not mean to make a spreadsheet for feelings. At least, that was his official position.

After a small family disagreement, sixteen-year-old Alexander does what he always does when something does not make sense: he builds a system. The result is a seventeen-tab spreadsheet covering everything from Emotional Responses and Apologies Pending to Historical Grievances, Potential Overreactions, and Tab Ten: Snack-Related Injustices, marked Ongoing.

McKenna reads it like a case file. Jourdan reads it like evidence. Neither of them expects what they find in Tab Seventeen.

The funniest book in the series is also the most honest. Because Alexander is not trying to control anyone. He is trying to give shape to feelings he does not know how to say out loud. And when his brother and sister finally understand that, the spreadsheet stops being a joke and starts being something worth keeping.

Warm, funny, and quietly moving, this is a story about what it means to love people whose minds work differently than yours, and what happens when someone finds a way to say the thing they have been carrying all along.

Naming a feeling is not the same as controlling it. But it is a place to begin.

Publisher: McKenna Books