Watch Over Me

Beschreibung

From the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay comes a “gripping” (Kirkus Reviews) modern ghost story about an orphan who accepts a remote teaching job in order to try and find her place in the world.<BR><BR>“A painfully compelling gem from a masterful creator.”—Booklist, starred review <BR><BR>“Moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric beauty.”—School Library Journal, starred review <BR> <BR>Mila is used to being alone. <BR><BR>Maybe that’s why she said yes.

Yes to a second chance in this secluded place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. <BR><BR>But she hadn’t known about the ghosts. <BR><BR>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.

Angaben vom Händler.