Chirp

In CHIRP, a middle schooler named Mia is moving with her parents from Boston to Vermont in order to support her grandmother who's recovering from a stroke. Her fear of meeting new people and having adventures is something new, and as she unpacks her boxes in her new room, she finds remnants of her younger, braver self. Helping her Gram, who owns a cricket farm, could be a fulfilling enough way to spend the summer, but her parents want her to engage in more activities. So, she finds herself enrolling in a "Launch Camp" with other middle schoolers who are making inventions that they will present to future investors. She meets a girl named Clover in that camp who's also in the "Warrior Camp" nearby. But getting to the Warrior Camp means going through the gymnastics studio, which brings up a whole set of emotions for Mia, whose tumbling accident sidelined her for a year, and where something else happened that she doesn't want to talk about. She's become afraid of new people and experiences. Her new friend Clover, however, is a girl of action. She suspects a mystery happening at Gram's cricket farm and enlists Mia to help solve it with her. Friendships, business ideas, and a warrior attitude help Mia look at what has changed her in the past, and what she wants from the world going forward.