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Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me

by Nina Lacour
Hardback
Publication Date: 10/08/2021

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A modern ghost story about trauma and survival, Watch Over Me is the much-anticipated new novel from the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay "Gripping; an emotion-packed must-read." -Kirkus, starred review
"A painfully compelling gem from a masterful creator." -Booklist, starred review
"Moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric beauty." -SLJ, starred review

Mila is used to being alone.

Maybe that's why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below.

But she hadn't known about the ghosts.

Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. So when she's offered a teaching job and a place to live on an isolated part of the Northern California coast, she immediately accepts. Maybe she will finally find a new home--a real home. The farm is a refuge, but it's also haunted by the past. And Mila's own memories are starting to rise to the surface.

Nina LaCour, the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay, delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me about trauma and survival, chosen family and rebirth.
ISBN:
9781432888732
9781432888732
Category:
Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
10-08-2021
Publisher:
Thorndike Striving Reader
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
216x142x20mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Nina Lacour

Nina LaCour grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has tutored and taught in various places, from a juvenile hall to Mills College, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing in 2006.

She currently teaches English at an independent high school and is the co-founder of Write Teen, a series of YA writing classes.HOLD STILL, Nina's first novel, was published by Dutton Children’s Books in 2009. 

HOLD STILL is a William C. Morris Honor book, a Junior Library Guild selection, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and a Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2009. Nina won the 2009 Northern California Book Award for Children’s Literature and was featured in Publishers Weekly as a Flying Starts Author.

Nina's second YA novel,THE DISENCHANTMENTS, was published in 2012 by Dutton Books. She lives in Oakland, California with her wife, photographer Kristyn Stroble.

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