Books with author Carolyn Coman

After her mother dies trying to rescue a boy on a snowy mountain, twelve-year-old Roz searches desperately to understand what happened, and why her mother seemed to choose him over her. "During a search for a lost teenager, Roz Jacoby's mother simply fell off a mountain and out of Roz's life. Feeling confused, betrayed, adrift, and, at times, guilty, 12-year-old Roz plots a course that will take her to Nate, the boy for whom her mother died...Coman's narrative skillfully unveils past events with a subtle emotional intensity that keeps the reader riveted...Pure poetry."-Starred, Booklist

Out of the blue Berry's estranged dad turns up and tells her that her sister Laura has been murdered in South Africa. Berry is consumed by despair and anger. At night she lies in bed, with a pile of comforting stones on her chest, to stop her floating away. Then her dad tells her they are going to South Africa to go to Laura's memorial service. Feeling bitter and alone, Berry begins a painful journey to the place where her sister died, accompanied by a father she doesn't want to know. But in a country seeking its own reconciliation, Berry takes the reluctant steps towards forgiveness.

Josephine Russing owns 387 pairs of gloves. She's given a new pair every week by her father, a sullen man known best for his insistence that the citizens in town wear gloves at all times. A world away, the children of Gulm have been taken. No one knows where they might be, except the mysterious and terrifying leader of the land: The Master. He rules with an iron fist, using two grotesque creatures to enforce his terrible reign. When a peculiar boy named Fargus shows up on Josephine's property and then disappears soon afterward, she follows him without a second thought and finds herself magically transported to Gulm. After Fargus introduces her to his tough-as-nails friend Ida, the three of them set off on an adventure that will test everything Josephine has ever thought about the rules of the universe, leading to a revelation about the truth of the land of Gulm, and of Josephine's own life back home.