“Henkes perfectly captures Alice’s angst as she spins between the little-girlhood she’s leaving behind and the adolescence that looms in front of her.”—New York Times

Alice Rice is turning ten—double digits—and the world is full of promise. She has friends and family to celebrate with her, as well as an eagerly anticipated beach vacation ahead of her, and she knows exactly how everything will be: perfect. But what happens when life isn’t exactly what Alice expects This exquisitely crafted short novel is illustrated throughout by the author, who was awarded the Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s First Full Moon. Junonia is for a younger reader than Kevin Henkes’s acclaimed novels Olive’s Ocean (a Newbery Honor Book) and Bird Lake Moon. An often funny, always true, masterful coming-of-age story about the unexpected ways in which a gift can arrive.