Stick with this one. I thought I was going to give it up by page 50, then by page 100, but once I hit 130 pages somehow I was totally sucked in. Middle school me would have LOVED this book. In 6th grade we did an entire class-wide unit on Ancient Greek and Ancient Egypt (we read an abridged version of the Odyssey and wrote our own myths in Language Arts and Social Studies, and then mummified chickens in science class and wrote stories in Papyrus font in Language Arts, for ex.). I didn't love Caitlyn but I love love LOVED all of the Ancient Greek stuff. And the goats!! I love them too! Ali Benjamin, too, nailed the small weird school stuff (been there, done that). But I just didn't love this one as much as her debut, 'The Thing about Jellyfish' (hence the 4 stars).