How to Make Friends with the Sea

A boy grapples with anxiety as his mother fosters a Filipino orphan girl in this “heartbreaking, heartwarming, powerful” middle grade novel ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). Pablo is homesick. He’s only twelve years old, but he’s lived in more countries than he can count. After his parents divorced, he and his mother have moved from place to place for years, never settling anywhere long enough to call it home. And along the way, Pablo has collected more and more fears: of dirt, of germs, and m