Hurricane Season Written by Nicole Melleby Algonquin Young Readers, 2019 Buy Now on Amazon: Hardcover | Kindle Nicole Melleby’s debut novel, Hurricane Season, is a gentle look at love and life in all its messy complexity and hopeful beauty. It’s been just Fig and her dad since she was a baby, and that’s fine by her. Fig knows her dad, a brilliant and once-famous pianist, has his bad days – days where he can’t get out of bed or where he’s so excited he’s liable to wander off i

The Line Tender Written by Kate Allen Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2019 Buy Now on Amazon: Hardcover | Kindle The Line Tender by Kate Allen is one of those books that hooked me from the very first page, and the equal parts humor, heartbreak, and nostalgia held me until the very last. Set in the 1990s in coastal Massachusetts, The Line Tender is the story of 12-year-old Lucy Everhart, whose marine biologist mother passed away suddenly when Lucy was seven. Since then, Lucy a

Louisiana’s Way Home Written by Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press, 2018 Buy Now on Amazon: Hardcover | Kindle “I am going to write it all down, so that what happened to me will be known, so that if someone were to stand at their window at night and look up at the stars and think, My goodness, whatever happened to Louisiana Elefante? Where did she go? They will have an answer. They will know. This is what happened. I will begin at the beginning.” —Louisiana Elefante I may have l