Strong Like the Sea
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Even though twelve-year-old Alexis was born in Hawaii, she wonтАЩt surf or swim with her friendsтАФnot since the ocean and its hidden creatures swept her out to sea. Instead, she grabs her best detective hat and decodes her momтАЩs latest challenge.
AlexтАЩs mom works in counterintelligence and leaves codes, ciphers, and puzzles behind for Alex to solve, always with a тАЬtreasureтАЭ at the end. ItтАЩs a brilliant game between them, and Alex loves figuring out her momтАЩs puzzlesтАФespecially the tricky onesтАФbut when an emergency at sea puts her mom in possible danger, solving the next one suddenly feels far more urgent.
Friends help as Alex races to decipher each clue before time runs out, but when the trail leads to grumpy old Uncle, his enormous dog Sarge, and a sea turtle unlike any other, the challenge changes into something bigger than any before. With storms on the horizon and lives on the line, Alex must face her fears to solve MomтАЩs challenge and save those she loves. With her ohana to help, she must be strong like the sea.
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Wendy S. Swore and her family are farmers. She writes part-time, particularly in winter when her farming chores give her time to plant seeds in her imagination. Her debut novel, A Monster Like Me, was the 2019 Gold Winner for Juvenile Fiction from Foreword Reviews. She is a member of SCBWI.
Emily Woo Zeller is an Earphones award-winning audiobook narrator. After beginning her voiceover career with Asian animation, she returned to the United States and began narrating a broad spectrum of audiobook genres. Her multilingual, multicultural framework brings a particularly unique, clear-eyed, and intimate perspective to the Asian American narratives she specializes in.
