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- 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.
- 288 Pages
- Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes
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"Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. So when shes 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 its also haunted by the past. And Milas own memories are starting to rise to the surface."--Provided by publisher.Book Synopsis
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.
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Praise for Watch Over Me
YALSA Best Fiction of the Year
Kirkus Best Books of the Year
New York Public Library Best Books of the Year
Chicago Public Library Best Books of the Year
Buzzfeed Best of the Year ★ "The sense of place is strong, and readers will be transported to the rocky, coastal hills shrouded in fog and full of secrets.... Mila's journey to reclaim herself and find independence is tense and powerful." --Kirkus, starred review ★ "LaCour presents a ghost story that is moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric beauty with foggy, coastal air that hangs heavy in the pages.... 100% LaCour at its core." --SLJ, starred review ★ "LaCour's portrait of a young woman yearning to belong and facing her past while navigating the liminal space between childhood and adulthood brims with tender moments and sensory details." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "LaCour's writing is lyrical and atmospheric, both in capturing the natural setting of the story and in exploring the dark recesses of her characters' grief, guilt, and psychic pain.... An empowering story of one young woman's quest to rediscover the part of herself she has left behind and to become independent." --Horn Book Praise for Printz Award--winning author Nina LaCour We Are Okay
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal
A National Best Seller "A meditation on surviving grief, We Are Okay is short, poetic and gorgeously written. The world LaCour creates is fragile but profoundly humane." --The New York Times Book Review "A beautiful, devastating piece of art. Be prepared to be gutted--and grateful. We Are Okay is an extraordinary work by an author who keeps redefining and elevating her genre." --BookPage "Nina LaCour treats her emotions so beautifully and with such empathy. Of course, we'd expect nothing less from the stunning LaCour." --Bustle ★ "Exquisite." --Kirkus, starred review ★ "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful." --Booklist, starred review ★ "Beautifully crafted . . . . A quietly moving, potent novel." --SLJ, starred review ★ "A moving portrait of a girl struggling to rebound after everything she's known has been thrown into disarray." --Publishers Weekly, starred review ★"Bittersweet and hopeful . . . poetic and skillfully crafted." --Shelf Awareness, starred review Hold Still
★ "An impressive debut." --Publishers Weekly "Confident writing and [a] savvy sense of prose." --Kirkus "The book is written with honesty, revealing one's pain after the loss of a loved one." -- SLJ The Disenchantments
"Quietly compelling . . . well rendered, bittersweet and hopeful." --The Los Angeles Times ★ "This is about the inside and outside of characters, the past and future of their lives--and it is astonishing." --Booklist, starred review ★ "A rich tapestry that will make readers confident that they are in the hands of a master storyteller. Hauntingly beautiful." --Kirkus, starred review ★"Bittersweet and hopeful . . . poetic and skillfully crafted." --Shelf Awareness, starred review Everything Leads to You
★ "Underneath the privilege surges real pain, longing, and feeling." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
About the Author
Nina LaCour is the author of the widely acclaimed Hold Still, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, and the Michael L. Printz Award winner We Are Okay. She is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of You Know Me Well. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher, she now writes and parents full-time. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Nina lives with her family in San Francisco, California. www.ninalacour.comDimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .45 Pounds
Suggested Age: 14 Years
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Sub-Genre: Social Themes
Publisher: Rocky Pond Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Nina Lacour
Language: English
Street Date: January 18, 2022
TCIN: 83985092
UPC: 9780593108994
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-3016
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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4.7 out of 5 stars with 3 reviews
Haunting, atmospheric and beautiful
5 out of 5 stars
lurkykitty - 5 years ago
Watch Over Me is an unusual book. Mila is eighteen and has aged out of the foster care system. She is traumatized, lonely, broken and ravaged by grief and guilt. She takes a job teaching at an isolated self-sustaining farm on the Northern California coast. The couple at The Farm have many adopted foster children and three interns. All have experienced trauma. They farm flowers, fruits and vegetables and everyone pitches in. The Farm is haunted by ghosts who come out at night. Everyone seems to accept the presence of the ghosts. The significance of the ghosts is revealed by the end of the story. The story is a slow build, quiet, well written and alternates between Mila's past and present. The setting is eerie and atmospheric. This book is haunting and healing. It is one of those stories that will stay with you.
A very easy read
4 out of 5 stars
Breywar - 5 years ago
I’m giving it 4/5 stars. The main character Mila has a tragic past that she wants nothing more than to work past. I loved her. I thought she was very strong, and someone I would look up to in life. The way she cares for Lee is very heartwarming and comforting. this book was extremely short, I read it in about 2 hours, and I even made dinner throughout those two hours. I feel like there were a lot of wasted pages that could’ve had more content so readers could have connected with more characters and their backstories. The romance between Billy and Liz as well as when they become really close with Mila is very odd. I still don’t understand that whole dynamic. It didn’t really add anything to the story, except confusion (to me anyway). Foster children is a concept for stories that I haven’t read much on, and the farm lifestyle was very unique. This was a book I can’t compare to any other. I liked it a lot and recommend it for a fast read for characters with dark backstories