Great YA Reads!

These jaw-dropping YA tales take you everywhere from the baseball field to the desert of ancient Peru. Join us in-store to hear all about them! Books of Wonder is brimming with joy to be hosting K.M. HUBER, author of , and TOMMY GREENWALD author of .

by TOMMY GREENWALD

Cal Klondike’s life revolves around baseball. He’s the Walthorne Baseball Academy’s star pitcher, and everyone from his coach to his dad to the town sports blogger is telling him he has an unlimited future in the sport. But with all this attention comes a lot of added stress, especially as the season kicks into high gear and college and pro scouts start to show up at the games. Inevitably, tensions that have been bubbling under the surface finally boil over, culminating in a confrontation that could change Cal’s relationship to baseball forever.

Told through a combination of transcripts, articles, texts, and emails, The Right Call is a gripping, fast-paced story for middle grade readers about our split-second decisions, facing the consequences, and the courage it takes to forgive.

by K.M. HUBER

In a sixth-century Peruvian desert, the ancient Nasca people keep the valleys green with their faith and ingenuity. But a drought, long and with no end in sight, fuels growing unrest. Now, cunning sorcerers and cruel priests vie for control, and Water Guardians like Patya’s father, who refuse to favor the powerful, are under attack.

Fifteen-year-old Patya does not want to become a healer like the long lineage of women in her family before her. Her grandmother hinted she was born for something else. When that same, beloved grandmother dies unexpectedly, a grief-struck Patya retreats into dance and music.

But, in the wake of a deadly earthquake, Patya must not only help the healers, she must do things she never thought possible. As she begins to conquer her self-doubts and trust her own sense of justice, she will also have to outwit men of power to keep her little brother from being sacrificed by religious extremists at the coming solstice.

As Patya begins to realize and grow into her own power, she also discovers her grandmother’s secret legacy and prepares to step into an unexpected destiny.

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