Ben Fox: Squirrel Zombie Specialist at Your Service

The Long Night of Leo and Bree

Just Shy of Ordinary

Here And There

Missing Matthew (Northern Lights Young Novels)

The Beautiful Country

Mixed Just Right

Wherever You Go

Danny's mother died three weeks before his graduation.  She had cancer for 5 years, and all she ever wanted to do was to make it to Danny's graduation, she said. But she couldn't even make it the last three weeks, like she promised. And now Danny is left alone, with the empty house and the memories, having to figure out what to do with her estate and what to say for his Valedictorian speech now that his mom is gone. When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where his mother had been going for treatment, it paints a picture of a side of his mother he never knew. And he knows, when he gets this letter, that the only way to ever settle his grief over her loss is to go to Tokyo and discover everything he can about her love affair with that city. Through all that, When You Were Here has humor and warmth, a great dog named Sandy Koufax, an estranged love, and a Japanese friend who is almost-but-definitely-not a Harijuku girl, and whose manic joy for life and sponge cake are the exact thing Danny needs to pull himself through the days and come to terms with his mother's death.

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Ben Fox: Squirrel Zombie Specialist at Your Service

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The Long Night of Leo and Bree

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Just Shy of Ordinary

A. J. Sass, 2024

Here And There

Teakie Welty, 2013

Missing Matthew (Northern Lights Young Novels)

Kristyn Dunnion, 2002

The Beautiful Country

Jane Kuo, 2022

Mixed Just Right

Kayln Charest, Lilyluise R Ward, 2016

Wherever You Go

Alexis Davis, 2021