This book is for my granddaughter and I am hoping she loves it as much as I do! She is becoming an avid reader and I love to encourage her so this is a wonderful opportunity to provide her with new reading material!

I thought this book was well written and enjoyed the pictures as well. The lesson in this book was explained very well. Be patient! There’s always next time! If you love something don’t give up and keep devoted to it. I recommend this to anyone. Julia a 9 year old girl is part of a swim team at the community center. It is located next door to her parents sushi shop. The coach had announced that the PBD (personal best day) was a week away. Then the coach finds out that Julia has been having a pain in her ear the last two days. So the coach had to tell Julia’s parents that she needs to go the doctor. Julia and her mom finds out that Julia has an ear infection and has to keep her ear dry for the next ten days and take her medicine. Julia was having a hard time missing practice and seeing everyone swim without her that she was trying to come up with ideas to be able to swim no matter what. She decides to take a plastic soup bowl and glue it over her ear. Julia was that devoted to swimming that she wanted to protect her ear so she could swim. It took Julia’s mom and the librarian to get the bowl off from Julia’s head. Even though Julia was disappointed she couldn’t participate in swimming and clock in her time; she learned she could be patient and partake in it next year. But participate and support the team by helping the coach out with the times. Olivia will have to watch out for Julia next year. ( )

Julia on the Go! is about how a 9 year old super swimmer deals with an ear infection. It's a very simple and easy read with a relatable story and characters. There are good themes for young middle grade readers here like developing other interests, and showing patience. The story became more interesting for me when Julia made her own ear plug. I thought it was too long though with not much happening, and could have been edited down.
I won this in a LibraryThing giveaway for my LFL (Verobeach Little Free Library).
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Really sweet book for middle-level elementary on a topic that is really relatable for a lot of them. Wanting something so badly, but all of the adults are saying no and saying how easy it is to go without that thing. Good read! ( )