Ida B ...and Her Plans To Maximize Fun By Katherine Hannigan on 2040-motos

Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun.

That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook. 
Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping, Mind-Numbing, Fun-Killing Torture—school. She feels her heart getting smaller and smaller and hardening into a sharp, black stone. 
How can things go from righter than right to a million miles beyond wrong? Can Ida B put together a plan to get things back to just-about perfect again?

“This bittersweet, funny and realistic tale about a child’s first taste of life’s more difficult problems begs to be read aloud and announces the arrival of a new writer to watch.” USA Today