All You Need by Sheela Word

A moving historical novel about the tumultuous late 60s, All You Need by Sheela Word is a vivid portrait of the time with a timeless thread about coming to terms with the past. Twelve-year-old Terry Morales goes to stay with her estranged father at a remote Oregon commune, and only expects to live with her dad temporarily, but when a tragedy strikes, she must figure out how to persevere in the face of an abusive caregiver. Sometimes All You Need gets bogged down in unnecessary details, but overall it is an emotive novel about navigating adolescence during a time of political upheaval, which successfully illustrates triumph and tragedy in equal measure.