Dear Maybe
a.k.a. Team Morden Friendship Explosion
a.a.k.a. MDU: Morden Disaster Unit, Besties Division
When eleven-year-old Mabel Rathberger moves from Winnipeg to the small town of Morden, Manitoba, she leaves behind her best friend, her favorite attic ghosts, and the only house she's ever loved. What she doesn't leave behind: the giant feelings that keep piling up inside her. So she starts writing to Maybe.
Maybe is not a person. Maybe is a diary. Or a monkey. Or a superhero sidekick. Maybe is the only one who gets it.
Through secret missions, soccer disasters, awkward crushes, and whispered sleepover codes, Mabel is trying to figure out how to belong in a new town with a tired mom, a quiet horse, and friends who sometimes don't feel like friends at all. And just when she thinks she's settling in, a letter arrives-from the dad who left when she was five.
Told in a funny, honest, and wildly imaginative voice, Dear Maybe is a story about growing up one feeling at a time.
Because even if your life feels like a moving box turned upside down... you still get to decide what to keep inside.
