Sally J. Pla. Quill Tree, $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-326879-1
Autistic 13-year-old Maudie McGinn loves spending summers with her father in his California cabin. But this year, she carries a terrible secret, one that her mother insists Maudie not tell him. But her existing trauma deepens when a wildfire forces...
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Sally J. Pla, illus. by Julie McLaughlin. Harper, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-244576-6
Charlie feels safest at home in California, where his family tolerates his obsessive rituals and fascination with birds. But home isn’t the same without his journalist father, who is far away in Virginia
being treated for a brain injury he incurred
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Sally J. Pla, illus. by Ken Min. Lee & Low, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62014-345-2
Sammy, a boy with floppy black hair, had a bad day at school, and back home, he feels overlooked. Sammy’s mother tells him to be quiet—his brother, Benji, is playing in his small, house-shaped “box,” a sign that he, too, is having a rough day. “When
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Sally J. Pla, illus. by Tania de Regil. Quill Tree, $19.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06326-885-2
“Small, quiet” Isabel Beane doesn’t feel like she fits in. She tries her best to please others, even practicing smiling at home, “so people would know she was nice/ and good and friendly.” Attempts to befriend classmate Monica result in a cruel...
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