Discover this week's Friday Finds featuring award-winning middle-grade fantasy, a gripping dystopian thriller, Kate Ellington as Author of the Week, a summer reading tote, refreshing strawberry basil lemonade, and more bookish inspiration.
A mysterious box of letters sends Sammi to Italy in search of answers about her grandmother's wartime past. In my review of Letters From Lucca by Kim Baccellia, I share why this emotional dual-timeline novel of courage, sacrifice, and family secrets earned one of my highest ratings.
A thoughtful YA dystopian novel about belief, control, and the cost of questioning authority. In Candle in the Wind, Kim Baccellia follows a young woman cast out of a cult-like community and forced to confront the truth behind everything she was taught to believe.