

Raven remembers how to solve math equations and make pasta, but she can't remember her favorite song or who she was before the accident. We all struggle with that.When a tragic accident takes the life of seventeen-year-old Raven Roth's foster mom-and Raven's memory-she moves to New Orleans to live with her foster mother's family and finish her senior year of high school. We associate that with girls but it's not just a thing that girls struggle with. That's a legitimate thing that guys struggle with, and my brothers were very conscious of that, if they were as tall as their friends or if they sounded as old. And we want to show that it's fine to look young.

That is a thing guys struggle with - am I big enough? Am I tall enough? Do I have facial hair? Do I look manly? And Gar, even when he has a growth spurt in the book, he's still very young and adorable looking, because that's the essence of who he is. The part that he really gets upset about is that he feels like he doesn't look his age.

But he talks about the fact that his voice hasn't dropped, and he's shorter than everybody and a little bit skinny and people are constantly mistaking him for a freshman, and he's actually a senior. So, if he were more mature looking and he had a deeper voice, he probably wouldn't mind being short. For him, the biggest issue is not necessarily just his size, it's that he looks young. GARCIA: I have four brothers, and guys are just as self-conscious about the way they look as girls are.
