Everybody Experiment

Eleven-year-old Kylie feels that her friends are far more grown up than she is. With middle school only a summer away, she worries they may leave her behind, particularly because she keeps embarrassing them.

She decides to approach the problem like a scientist. Her hypothesis is that she will become mature if she does whatever everybody else does. All summer, whenever her friends try something, she will try it too, and she calls the project the Everybody Experiment.

Suddenly Kylie is in a new, more grown-up world of parties, unsupervised outings, and boys. But the more she researches, the more she wonders how to keep up with everyone else without losing track of who she is.

This funny and warm middle grade novel by Lisa Moore Ramée, the author of A Good Kind of Trouble, deals with friendship, fitting in, and the ups and downs of middle school. It is written in the spirit of Judy Blume.