Sparkle

After twelve-year-old aspiring superstar, Sparkle Moore, is diagnosed with alopecia, she must navigate family, friends, and her own self-esteem with the added challenge of losing her hair. Perfect for fans of Stand Up, Yumi Chung! and From the Desk of Zoe Washington. Sparkle Moore is destined to be a star. Her mother is determined to turn her and her younger sister, Nova, into social media influencers and budding superstars. And after her dad has lost work as a sitcom actor, Sparkle wants to do whatever she can to help her family financially, too. But at the onset of middle school, Sparkle begins losing her hair-first her lashes, then her eyebrows, and then small circular bald spots appear in various sections on her head. It´s hard enough having to go to school and hide her diagnosis from her friends-all while they´re trying out for big roles in the school play-but Sparkle quickly has to deal with weird medications, itchy wigs, and lost opportunities her mom has wrangled, including a big shampoo commercial. Despite everything she might do to hide what´s happening, and all her work keeping her friends together, when Sparkle´s secrets start coming to the surface-Sparkle has to come to terms with the changes in her life and show her classmates and her family what she can do with or without hair.