Honestly Elliott

Gillian McDunn

Bloomsbury USA, 2022 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 288 pages

Schneider Family Book Award: Best Middle Grade Honor Book!

Highly-acclaimed author of Caterpillar Summer, Gillian McDunn explores boyhood in a funny, big-hearted story about a kid trying to find the best way to be his best self.

Elliott isn't sure where he fits in. Ever since his best friend moved away and his dad and stepmom announced the arrival of their new baby, he's been feeling invisible. Plus his dad just doesn't seem to understand what having ADHD really feels like, or why cooking is the one activity where Elliott's mind clicks into place.

When he’s paired with the super smart and popular Maribel for a school project, Elliott worries she'll be just another person who underestimates him. But Maribel is also looking for a new way to show others her true self and this project could be the chance they’ve both been waiting for. Sometimes the least likely friends help you see a new side to things . . . and sometimes you have to make a few mistakes before you figure out what’s right.


Acclaim for Caterpillar Summer
An Indies Introduce Pick
A Texas Bluebonnet Selection
A Parents Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Book of the Year

What people are saying

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - fionaanne - LibraryThing

Quite readable but I honestly found Elliott to be a bland, uninteresting character. We are told repeatedly that he has ADHD but he doesn't narrate like he does. (Maybe this would have been better if ...

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User Review  - sgrame - LibraryThing

When sixth grade Elliott finds out they have to do a group project for a month he heads right over to his lunchtime friends... where he is rejected because they think since he has ADHD he will bring ...

About the author

Gillian McDunn is the author of These Unlucky Stars, The Queen Bee and Me, and Caterpillar Summer, which received two starred reviews, and was selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List, and Kirkus Reviews and Parents magazine Best Books of the Year lists. When she isn't reading or writing, she is probably baking gluten-free treats, traveling, or spending time with her family. She lives near Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and children, and a very silly dog named Friday.

www.gillianmcdunn.com
@gillianmcdunn

Bibliographic information

• Title: Honestly Elliott
• Author: Gillian McDunn
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2022
• ISBN: 1547606258, 9781547606252
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / General; Juvenile Fiction / Cooking & Food; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship; Juvenile Nonfiction / Family / Parents