Her journey to discover who she is makes Margie’s character so real.
With every turn and place they encounter she questions who she is and why she’s doing it. Who hasn’t felt like that to a certain extent, especially during that age in life? It’s this reason above all others that I feel young readers will connect with Margie instantly, because she “gets” them.Margie’s mission to find the mother that abandoned her is nothing short of an adventure filled with page after page of self-realization. Her entire world is wrapped up in three people who she believes wish that she didn’t exist or at least that she’d be better or different. In addition to this it’s obvious from the few pages you see Margie’s parents interact that there’s obviously something not quite right. Unfortunately for Margie, she just didn’t have that or so she believed.Can you even imagine having a genius nine year old sister join you during that time? A sister who points out every fault and mishap hoping that it will only make her look better, because she is obviously still only a nine year old emotionally speaking. In the very best outcome I’d hope they know how very proud I am and how much I value them for what they contribute to everyone they know. Hopefully with any luck they will feel that I’m someone they can depend on to support them and make home a place a refuge for them. I yearn for them to have every bit the opposite experience as Margie did in The Map of Me. It’s one of those time periods I’m not looking forward to for my own kiddos. What she discovers makes her own “The Map of Me” come to life.How many times can I say this? Middle school and that in between time is hard. Without the support of her father and with her sister tagging behind her she borrows her dad’s prized truck and begins to search.
One afternoon after a particularly hard day at school, that includes her little sister teasing her relentlessly, Margie comes home to a note on their chicken decorated fridge “I HAVE TO GO”. When everyone in the world seems to misunderstand you and life is harder than it should how do you handle the abandonment of one of the only ones who supported you.
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