Adrift -- Tanya Guerrero - Hardcover

From Tanya Guerrero, the author of All You Knead Is Love and How to Make Friends with the Sea, comes Adrift, an upper middle grade contemporary story of survival and grief about two biracial Filipino cousins whose resilience is tested when one of them is lost at sea.

Cousins Coral and Isa are so close that they're practically siblings; their mothers are sisters, and the two girls grew up on the same small island. When Coral and her parents leave on a months-long sea voyage amid the islands of Indonesia, Isa is devastated that they'll be kept apart, and the two vow to write to each other no matter what.

Then the unthinkable happens, and Coral's boat capsizes at sea, where her parents vanish. Washed up on a deserted island, alone and wracked by grief, she must find the strength within to survive, and find her way back home. Meanwhile, Isa is still on Pebble Island, the only one holding out hope that her beloved cousin is still alive.

Told in alternating points of view, this is a powerful story of loss and hope, love and family--and the unexpected resilience of the human spirit.

Author: Tanya Guerrero
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.61w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780374389659
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 68
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2022