How to Write a Novel by Melanie Sumner

Blending humor and heart, How to Write a Novel follows 12-year-old Aristotle “Aris” Thibodeau, who sets out to pen the Great American Novel by writing what she knows—her quirky, chaotic family. Her single mom, Diane, is an underemployed English professor with messy hair and worse luck in love, while Penn MacGuffin, their handyman and “Positive Male Influence,” might just be the perfect partner if only Diane would notice. But when Aris stumbles upon painful family secrets, she learns that, like in real literature, life doesn’t always follow the plot you want.