'The Waters & the Wild' by Francesca Lia Block

"The Waters & the Wild" by Francesca Lia Block

From an author known for her ability to make language sing, comes a new young adult novel. Bee is a quiet, lonely girl living in a lovely California coast town, in a ramshackle beach cottage with her therapist mother and her mother's astrologer boyfriend. Like many Block characters, Bee is wispy and a bit fragile, and certainly different. She often finds herself waking in the middle of the night to find a strange girl in her room, who looks exactly like her.

When Bee makes friends with Sarah and Haze, together they work out that Bee is actually what is known as a changeling -- a child who was switched at birth with an elf child very similar to her -- and who has apparently been visiting her bedroom late at night. Where, Bee wonders, does she belong? And what does the girl want?

As compact as Bee herself at just 107 pages, this small novel is powerful enough to keep you curious long after you've finished it -- and might leave you feeling as light as Bee herself.

Available Now. Or, find it at your local library.