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When Middle School Gets Messy, Faith Gets Real
Welcome to the official website of The Gift Is Me by Davida Grant Brown, a deeply heartfelt coming-of-age story about faith, friendship, healing, purpose, and the overwhelming weight of carrying a gift that changes everything. Through Simone’s journey, readers are pulled into a world where ordinary childhood moments collide with extraordinary spiritual experiences, creating a story that feels emotional, personal, and impossible to forget.
The Gift Is Me invites readers into Simone’s world—a place where friendship, faith, healing, and purpose intertwine, and where carrying a gift means carrying responsibility, sacrifice, and fear. Emotional, personal, and deeply moving, this coming-of-age story explores what it means to grow up when everything changes at once.
Davida Grant Brown
Davida Grant Brown is an author, lawyer, marriage coach, and youth mentor.
Davida is passionate about storytelling and writes children’s books that both inspire and promote self-esteem. She also writes self-help books for families facing complex issues.
Remove the Lately, Davida’s been writing faith-based books for middle grade. Drawing on her family law and youth mentorship background, her latest project, The Gift Is Me, captivates the hearts of tweens as they navigate faith, friendships, and crushes in middle school.
Davida and her husband have two children and live in Dallas, Texas.
The Gift Is Me
Every child wants to belong. Every parent hopes their child will stay true to who they are.
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The Gift Is Me
The Gift Is Me follows Simone Lee, a young girl trying to navigate friendship, growing up, first crushes, constant moving, and the confusion of discovering she has been given a spiritual gift she never asked for. What begins as a normal childhood slowly shifts after an unbelievable healing changes Simone’s life forever. Suddenly, faith becomes more than something she learned in church. It becomes personal, powerful, and frightening all at once.
As Simone struggles to understand why God chose her, she also wrestles with loneliness, anger, jealousy, identity, and the fear of losing the people she loves most. The story balances emotional family moments, school friendships, teenage experiences, and spiritual discovery in a way that feels honest and deeply human. At its core, this is a story about learning how to trust God while still being human enough to question everything.
Testimonials
Readers will connect deeply with the emotional honesty, spiritual depth, and heartfelt storytelling woven throughout The Gift Is Me.
“An emotional and uplifting story that beautifully captures the challenges of growing up while carrying extraordinary purpose.”
“A heartfelt novel about faith, friendship, healing, and learning how to trust God even during painful transitions.”
“Simone’s journey feels incredibly real. The emotions, family dynamics, and spiritual moments stay with you long after the story ends.”