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.
Author: Nina Lacour
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780593108970
Audience: Young Adult
Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 509926 / Watch Over Me
Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2020
School Library Journal 08/01/2020 pg. 86
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2020
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020 pg. 72
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2020 pg. 96
Booklist 09/01/2020 pg. 102
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2020 - Superior,Well Above Average
About the AuthorNina LaCour is the author of the widely acclaimed
Hold Still,
The Disenchantments,
Everything Leads to You, and the Michael L. Printz Award winner
We Are Okay. She is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of
You Know Me Well. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher, she now writes and parents full-time. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Nina lives with her family in San Francisco, California. www.ninalacour.com