Where You Stand: An Inside Voices Novel — Book One

She got a nickname she never chose. He stayed silent when it mattered most.Maren just moved to a new school, and for four days, she's nobody - which, it turns out, is the best thing you can be. Then a joke in a group chat about a girl and a bird spirals into something nobody can take back, and "Bird Girl" becomes the only name anyone uses for her.Dev didn't write the joke. He just didn't stop it. And every day he stays quiet costs him a little more than he wants to admit.Where You Stand tells Maren's story first - the target, the isolation, the slow erosion of the one thing that was supposed to be hers alone. Then it rewinds through the same weeks from Dev's side - the friend who saw it happening and knows exactly why he didn't say anything, and exactly what that silence costs.Includes a full How-To Guide for readers on standing up to bullying and peer pressure, plus a dedicated Parent Guide with real scripts and signs to watch for.Book One in the Inside Voices series - realistic fiction for readers 9-13 who are carrying more than they say out loud, from the creator of Mindful Monsters.