All teens in grades 6-8 are welcome to join the Middle School Book Club! This month, we’re reading Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea, by Ashley Herring Blake.

Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong, Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a jagged scar on her face. After Mum's death, Hazel, her other mother, Mama, and her little sister, Peach, needed a fresh start.

When the family arrives in Rose Harbor, Maine, there's a wildness to the small town that feels like magic. Soon, Hazel finds herself obsessed with the Rose Maid, a local 150-year-old mermaid myth, because what if magic were real? What if grief really could change you so much, you weren't even yourself anymore? And what if instead you emerged from the darkness stronger than before?

Copies can be picked up from the Goodnow Library circulation desk. Please register for the program before checking out a book.