Books with title Joss

In this first book of her series, catching waves on her board, Joss is all in, 100%. When the surf's up, she pops out her hearing aid, hops on her board, and paddles into the waves. Joss is stoked to enter a surfing video contest with her surf sister Sofia and Murph the surfing bulldog. If she can master a killer aerial like the frontside air and get her brother Dylan to catch it on video, maybe she'd even have a shot at winning. But Dylan throws her a curve: he dares her to try out for the cheer team. No way -- Joss can't see herself as a cheerleader. (What's with those ginormous hair bows, anyway?) She's 100% surfer girl, and Dylan knows it! Still, if she takes him up on his dare, then maybe he'll help her with her video . . . it's worth a try, right?

When she is displaced to Middleton, near Manchester, to stay with her strange Aunt Mary, an unhappy 13 year old, Joanna Logan, begins a diary. The diary reflects all her unanswered questions about what is happening with her parents. It also records her experience of Middleton, and the friendship which grows with Joss, the boy from down the street who, unknown to his family, is keeping a special dog, Riverside Lad. Twenty five years later, Joanna returns to Middleton, and discovers the secrets which lay beneath her aunt`s life, secrets which she never suspected at the time.