Caroline Brooks DuBois

Six months after her older sister Sunny dies in a distracted-driving wreck, thirteen-year-old Tolly starts eighth grade without a phone and afraid the crash was her fault. Put in charge of a new Luddite club for kids avoiding technology, she finds an unexpected escape and a path toward answers.

After a tornado tears through her Nashville neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Quinn, always the average kid next to her genius brother, has to rebuild her home and herself.

Twelve-year-old Abbey, a military kid who is always the new girl, starts at another school in September 2001, just before the attacks that send her family's world spinning.