Contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Notice
3. Dedication
4. An Anti-Grinch Gets Excited
5. My Best Friend Is a Room
6. Home Is Where the Bach Is
7. X’s and O’s
8. Better Than a Puppy
9. My Sister Is Sick and It’s a Good Thing
10. A Shot a Day Makes the Doctor Say Yay
11. Growth Hormone and Marmalade
12. Silent Questions
13. No Payne, No Gain
14. How Not to Make Friends
15. Art Show
16. Seventh-Grade Writing
17. Beach Bum
18. First Draft
19. The Doctor That Isn’t Mine
20. Audacity
21. Friends and Consequences
22. Some Dead White Dude
23. How Grown-Ups Listen
24. Second Draft
25. Houston, We Have a Problem
26. What’s in a Name?
27. Textbook People’s People
28. Twitterpated
29. Out Loud
30. Thanksgiving Break
31. Silence
32. Sound
33. Eleanor Roosevelt
34. Gray Walls and Gas Masks
35. Long Distance
36. Doctor Who Was Right
37. The Impossible Dream
38. A New Doctor
39. NLD
40. There’s a Monster at the End of This Brain
41. Master Plan
42. The Day
43. The Night
44. Hospital
45. Waiting
46. Big Doctor Words
47. Doctor Who Was Wrong
48. Septal Defect
49. Waiting Again
50. A Glass Box
51. My Body Versus Me
52. Home Is Where the Heart Is
53. My People’s People
54. First Period
55. She’s Got the Whole World in Her Head
56. What Brains Are Made Of
57. One Month Later
58. When I Showed My Family the Email
59. On an Ordinary Sunday
60. What You Do with History
61. Seventh/Eighth-Grade Division Winner of the Smithsonian Women in STEM Contest
62. Acknowledgments
63. Q&A
64. Excerpt: Breathing Underwater
65. About the Author
66. Copyright