Erin Entrada Kelly

Every day in Fawn Creek feels exactly the same—until Orchid Mason arrives. There are twelve kids in the seventh grade at the Fawn Creek school. They've been together all their lives. In this tiny manufacturing town where everyone knows everything about everyone, that's not necessarily a great thing. There are twelve kids, but thirteen desks. That's because Renni Dean moved...

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In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kind-hearted and feels out of place in his loud family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister Gen is always following her around. Chet Bullens wishes the...

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