"This is perhaps the most exciting thing I have ever mailed you,"

 

writes Tamra Tuller.

And, indeed, it is.

What gorgeous (GORGEOUS) work Tamra Tuller and Chronicle Books have done on behalf of Going Over. Look at the neon pop of green. Look at the stenciled Ada, my heroine, who was inspired by one of Chronicle's own (look at the second picture; do you see the likeness?). Look at the boy and how he jumps. Look at the graffiti grit.

Sometimes everything is just right.

This is one of these times.

All love to Tamra Tuller, my editor, to whom this book is dedicated. All love to Jennifer Tolo Pierce, the designer who gorgeous-fied this book—inside and out. And all love to Ginee Seo, Lara Starr, Stephanie Wong, and Amber Morley of Chronicle Books.

It is a privilege.