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From acclaimed author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Halfway Normal comes a powerful and moving story of learning how to grow, change, and survive. When twelve-year-old Zinnia Manning's older brother Gabriel is diagnosed with a mental illness, the family's world is turned upside down. Mom and...

Telling Melinda he could talk, was his choice. Melinda telling her father that he could talk, wasn't. Trapped in a cup, Teensie has to speak up for himself and demand respect from the people who care for him.

Swimming is easy for Teensie. Not so much for Melinda and her father. While they discuss the difficulties they are having with their scuba lessons, he must advocate for himself to get out of the plastic baggie and into a proper travel tank. This short story is Season 1 Episode 3 of Tales from the Tank—short stories that take place within the full-size novels. Season 1 matches up with Book 1 of the Melinda series, Melinda and Her Father Go Scuba Diving.