Middle Grade
4 books, newest first
Thirteen-year-old Jonah is a hockey goalie who struggles with anxiety. When his best friend Ty has a medical crisis during a big game, Jonah has to learn to ask for help, both on the ice and off it.
When a wildfire forces eleven-year-old Cara and her family to flee their home, her one-eyed dog, Mike, is left behind. Staying with a host family while the fire burns, Cara holds on to the hope of finding him.
Deaf sixth grader Macy is unhappy about her mother's remarriage and the move into a new house with two stepsisters. Sent to help her elderly neighbor, Iris, pack up a lifetime of books, Macy finds an unexpected friendship.
Eleven-year-old Bailey, who believes in miracles, and her little brother Kevin spend the summer with their estranged grandmother in the island town of Felicity Bay while their parents attend marriage counseling. When Jasper, a former minister who now sells ice cream, predicts that a stranger from the sea will change everything, Bailey starts watching for one.