When Middle School Gets Messy, Faith Gets Real The Gift Is Me invites readers into Simone’s world—where friendship, faith, healing, and purpose collide. When a life-changing moment forces Simone to use a gift she cannot hide, she quickly learns that calling comes with responsibility, cost, and trust. Emotional, personal, and deeply moving, this coming-of-age story explores what it means to grow up when everything changes at once—and challenges young readers to trust God in the middle of it.
What if doing something miraculous cost you everything you loved?
At first glance, Simone Lee seems like any other girl trying to survive middle school, friendships, family expectations, and the awkward uncertainty of growing up. But everything changes after a terrifying accident involving her best friend Lena forces Simone to do the one thing she’s both feared and known all along—use her gift.
When Lena is miraculously healed, the moment should feel like an answer to prayer. Instead, it becomes the beginning of loss. To protect Simone, her family is forced to move, pulling her away from her first true friend—the one who meant the most. It’s a loss she doesn’t know how to carry.
With each new move, Simone is asked to start over—new school, new friendships, new life—while holding on to a secret that sets her apart. She struggles with loneliness, frustration, and the quiet fear that the very gift meant to help others may cost her the life she longs to keep.
As she navigates middle school, first crushes, and the fragile world of friendships, Simone is forced to wrestle with difficult questions: Why would God give her a gift that hurts this much? And how do you trust Him when obedience feels like loss?
Through every goodbye and every new beginning, Simone’s journey becomes one of discovering who she is, why she was chosen, and what it truly means to walk in faith.
The Gift Is Me is a powerful, faith-centered story about identity, sacrifice, and trusting God in the middle of pain—because some gifts don’t just change lives… they transform the one who carries them.
