This year everything was different.

Nolie didn’t expect sixth grade to change everything.

But lately her ballet-obsessed big sister is even more temperamental than usual and turns away from Nolie when she tries to ask what’s wrong.

And her best friend, Jessa, seems determined to act older and cooler—and she wants Nolie to do the same. Even though Nolie has always been happy just the way she is. Does she want to be different?

Maybe all she needs is a little guidance. A little luck. Grandma won’t miss her antique compass, right? And how much would Jessa mind if she borrowed her lucky necklace?

Suddenly, Nolie is on a path she didn’t mean to go down, and she has real reasons to atone on Yom Kippur. Can she find her way back to where—and who—she wants to be?

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