Watch Over Me

A follow-up to the award-winning We Are Okay finds a newly graduated Mila emerging from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents. Simultaneous eBook.
A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
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.