Family Fix-It Plan

M. G. Higgins gives siblings Arnie and Annabelle a problem that is achingly common and genuinely hard: their parents are separating, and Arnie is moving more than an hour away. The children's response — assembling a video montage of family memories to remind their parents what they share — is both heartbreakingly believable and quietly brave. The sibling bond at the center is the book's real strength, and the Darby Creek format keeps chapters accessible for reluctant middle-grade readers navigating a lot of real emotion. The honest limitations are two: critical documentation for this title is thin, so some details about resolution and execution are hard to verify, and the parental-separation theme means this is a book to offer thoughtfully rather than casually. Content is otherwise clean and handled with appropriate care for the age group.