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Let Me Fix That for You

A Bank Street Best Children's Book of 2020

Janice Erlbaum's Let Me Fix That for You is a quirky, touching, and laugh-out-loud middle-grade novel about a girl capable of fixing everything but her own life.


Twelve-year-old Gladys Burke may not have many friends, but at least she has her empire. From her table at the back of the cafeteria, Glad arranges favors for her classmates in exchange for their friendship. She solves every problem, handles every situation, and saves every butt.

But the jobs keep getting harder, and when Glad decides the problem that most needs fixing is her parents' relationship, she finds herself in way over her head. She'll have to call in all her favors and use all her skills to help the person who most needs it—herself.

Janice Erlbaum

Janice Erlbaum is the author of the memoirs Girlbomb and Have You Found Her;the novel for adults I, Liar; and the middle-grade novel Lucky Little Things. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux