Being a kid is no easy task.  Being a kid with anxiety is even worse.  In this genera defining look at children’s mental health, Livy sees her anxiety as her shadow or her other self with its own name and personality:  Viola.  Viola is loud and mean, and really hard to ignore.  But Livy gives it her best.  Livy’s family are immigrants in Canada and things are not as easy as they thought, and the extended family is always nit picking at Livy and her parents.  Livy does a good job handling Viola, but admits she needs help.  And thank goodness her parents ignore tradition and get Livy help.  What makes this book so success is how it portrays anxiety, how it attacks, how it lets go.  It also shows it’s not only okay to ask for help but to get help in return.  Sometimes it is needed and that is okay.  This book however, is way more than okay.  It’s well done all around.