Don't miss this tender middle grade new release by authors Gae Polisner and Nora Raleigh Baskin. They have collaborated to create this beautiful nod to friendship, love, and loss that had me in tears but left me uplifted and positive despite the chaos in the world at large. Best summer read so far!
One year ago Joy lost her best friend in a needless accident. Today is her thirteenth birthday, but it won't be the same without Lukas. The past year she has refused to mention him even though memories of him fill her every thought. How can she go about life as if nothing has changed?
In honor of Lukas, Joy decides to open the clue he left her on this day last year as part of their annual birthday scavenger hunt. As she opens the clue and reads it, she knows she must try to find the rest of the clues to complete this final hunt in his memory.
Joy heads to Vincent's Pizza where the first clue takes her. Things have changed at their favorite eating spot since last year. but she is amazed to find clue #2 taped to the underside of their favorite table. Now on to find clue #3. Could all the clues still be exactly where Lukas hid them? Joy is determined to follow the trail as far as it takes her.
SEVEN CLUES TO HOME is told in alternating voices so readers can follow Lukas's last day as he hides his clues and remembers his best moments with Joy, and as Joy clings to her memories of Lukas and the last words she spoke to him on that fateful day a year ago. At just under 200 pages, this precious book is sure to charm middle grade readers and more.
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