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Anise looks forward to the summer before her senior year surfing and hanging out with friends on the California coast. When her aunt, a single mother, is seriously injured in a car accident, she must move back to Nebraska to help care for her three young cousins. Landlocked and far from the beach, Anise struggles to leave her past behind while living in the childhood home of her runaway mother, who has appeared intermittently in her life since birth. In Nebraska, she meets Lincoln, a charismatic, one‑armed skateboarder who dares her to trade her surfboard for a skateboard. Anise embraces the challenge, discovering that sometimes the best way to find her own footing is to let go of yesterday’s expectations.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Laura Silverman
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