by Ginger Zee
First published 2019
Helicity Dunlap travels to Texas hoping distance will heal the wounds left by a tornado and flash flood in Michigan. She plans to spend a peaceful summer with her best friend Mia at Aunt Suze's beachfront bed and breakfast. The work is light, leaving time for collecting sea glass, soaking up sun, and maybe finding romance. But Helicity earned her name from the word meaning "to spin," and trouble follows her south. Worries about her older brother Andy grow stronger, even when he arrives unexpectedly in Texas. The weather proves just as dangerous as Michigan's when Helicity and her friends sail into a derecho, a fast moving line of violent windstorms. The storm capsizes their boat and turns her life upside down again. Helicity must confront her deepest fears and use everything she knows about weather to survive the nightmare and find her way back to safety.
Genres: fiction, adventure, contemporary, young-adult
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Texas, Michigan
Period: contemporary
256 pages · Hardcover · Disney-Hyperion
Content warnings: anxiety, depression