Another cute, feel-good middle grade novel about friendship, welcoming new people and adjusting to change as the Vancouver Viper swim team has to learn how to work with a new coach and work together to raise funds in order to keep being able to pay for swim times. I really enjoy this Asian Canadian led series that is all about acceptance, diversity and cooperation. Highly recommended. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

This is a fun, cute and clever book for older kids.
It follows the kids as they need to make money and will do that by having a fundraiser car wash. They have fun, work together, laugh and made money while doing it.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc.

Julia loves swimming, and she loves her coach, so she is upset when her coach has to go away because of a family emergency, and gets replaced by a grumpy one.

Plus, there has to be a fundraiser, and the kids have to make posters, and then wash cars.

Julia will do anything to help her team, so she goes all in, and rallies the troops, so to speak.

This is the second book in the series, and I find the stories cute and relatable. Julia’s parents own a sushi shop in the community center where the swimming is held, and she helps out there from time to time. She is a likable, if sometimes mischievous character. I like how in this volume, we see how she has empathy, and understands why the new coach is so grumpy.

Great fun and a quick read.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out the 11th of February 2025.