SUMMER OF SALT

Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma's Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby's Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric YA novel about two sisters with a magic passed down through generations, an island where strange things happen, and a summer that will become a legend.

On the island of By-the-Sea you could always smell two things: salt and magic.

Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience for a tingle of magic in her fingers a magic that has been passed down through every woman in her family. Her sister Mary already has a gift for defying gravity, but Georgina fears her own gift will never come.

When tragedy strikes, what made the Fernweh women special suddenly casts them in suspicion. Over the course of her last summer on the island a summer of storms, of love, of salt Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms.

Katrina Leno is the author of the young adult novels Everything All At Once, The Lost & Found, and The Half Life of Molly Pierce. She grew up on the East Coast and now lives in Los Angeles.