100% LaCour at its core.' - SLJ, starred review 'LaCour's portrait of a young woman yearning to belong and facing her past while navigating the liminal space between childhood and adulthood brims with tender moments and sensory details.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review 'LaCour's writing is lyrical and atmospheric, both in capturing the natural setting of the story and in exploring the dark recesses of her characters' grief, guilt, and psychic pain. Mila's journey to reclaim herself and find independence is tense and powerful.' - Kirkus, starred review 'LaCour presents a ghost story that is moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric beauty with foggy, coastal air that hangs heavy in the pages. Praise for Watch Over Me 'The sense of place is strong, and readers will be transported to the rocky, coastal hills shrouded in fog and full of secrets. 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. And Mila's own memories are starting to rise to the surface. The farm is a refuge, but it's also haunted by the past. Maybe she will finally find a new home-a real home. 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. Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. 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.

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