{"product_id":"meet-me-halfway-by-anika-fajardo","title":"Meet Me Halfway by Anika Fajardo","description":"[S\u0026amp;S Books for Young Readers]\r\n\r\n“A romp of a read!” —Rebecca Balcárcel, Pura Belpré Honor–winning author of The Other Half of Happy\r\n \r\nWhen new classmates Mattie and Mercedes meet and realize they have the same Colombian dad, the two team up in a Parent Trap–inspired misadventure to meet him for the first time in this sharp and poignant middle grade novel about the bonds that make a family.\r\n\r\nMattie Gomez feels directionless after being uprooted from her beloved Minnesota and forced to move in with her new stepfamily in California. So when she meets a girl at her new middle school who looks exactly like her, she’s not sure what to make of it.\r\n \r\nBut her doppelganger, the popular Mercedes Miller, doesn’t like it one bit.\r\n \r\nMercedes is used to getting what she wants, when she wants; Mattie would rather be invisible and blend into the background. Mercedes lives in a big empty house with her nanny; Mattie’s new home is packed-to-the-gills, twenty-four\/seven chaos. Mercedes has a shor","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"English \/ Paperback; 288 pages","offer_id":48769999241406,"sku":"9781534495913","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/0526\/1955\/files\/65f3c68e86202dd46ce883b67671067e062793931fec498e7bb7fc692bc19f18.jpg?v=1787289690","url":"https:\/\/www.fairisleshop.com\/products\/meet-me-halfway-by-anika-fajardo","provider":"fairisleshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}