CeCe is having a ‘badventure'. What if her new school doesn’t have band tryouts? Or a soccer team? What if CeCe can’t make new friends? Moving across the country was hard enough, but the new house is unusual, and there is definitely something haunted about it. Excited about her first year of middle school, CeCe and her friends anticipated all the fun they would have transitioning from elementary school to middle school. That was until the BIG announcement. Her family was moving across the country for her father’s job as an astronomer. Starting the new school doesn’t go well. The class-popular girl sets her sights on CeCe as she attends tryouts for the school soccer team and band. Making friends is difficult when the rumors swirl that the observatory is haunted. There are only so many “what ifs” for one eleven-year-old girl to think about. As CeCe balances her anxiety and comes to terms with her new situation, she starts to make forward strides in her new life, embracing what the galaxy has given her. The Galaxy According to Cece is emotional middle grade fiction for ages 8-12 that explores moving anxiety and the transition to a new school.