Kim Baker
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THE WATER BEARS...
Newt Gomez has a thing with bears.
Last year, he survived a bear attack. Now he finds an unusual bear statue that just might grant wishes. Newt’s best friend, Ethan, notices a wishbone on the statue and decides to make a wish. When it comes true, Newt thinks it’s a coincidence. Even as more people wish on the bear and their wishes come true, Newt is not convinced. But Newt has a wish too: while he loves his home on eccentric Murphy Island, he wants to go to middle school on the mainland where his extended family lives. There, he’s not the only Latinx kid, he won’t have to drive the former taco truck— a gift from his parents— and he won’t have to perform in the vaudeville festival. Most importantly, on the mainland, he can escape memories of the attack. Newt is almost ready to make a wish when everything changes.
Tackling themes of survival and self-acceptance, Newt’s story illuminates the magic in our world, where reality is often uncertain but always full of salvageable wonders.
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Newt Gomez has a thing with bears.
Last year, he survived a bear attack. Now he finds an unusual bear statue that just might grant wishes. Newt’s best friend, Ethan, notices a wishbone on the statue and decides to make a wish. When it comes true, Newt thinks it’s a coincidence. Even as more people wish on the bear and their wishes come true, Newt is not convinced. But Newt has a wish too: while he loves his home on eccentric Murphy Island, he wants to go to middle school on the mainland where his extended family lives. There, he’s not the only Latinx kid, he won’t have to drive the former taco truck— a gift from his parents— and he won’t have to perform in the vaudeville festival. Most importantly, on the mainland, he can escape memories of the attack. Newt is almost ready to make a wish when everything changes.
Tackling themes of survival and self-acceptance, Newt’s story illuminates the magic in our world, where reality is often uncertain but always full of salvageable wonders.
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ABOUT KIM...
Kim Baker’s first middle grade novel, PICKLE, about a secret middle school prank society, has been selected for many reading lists and was a Children’s Choice Awards Book of the Year finalist, one of Mamiverse’s Top 50 Latinx Children’s Books, and the recipient of the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. She is a former teacher and crisis counselor. Her next middle grade novel, THE WATER BEARS, about wishes, maybe-magic, and a taco truck, will be out April 21, 2020 from Wendy Lamb Books/Random House.
https://www.kimbakerbooks.com/
Kim Baker’s first middle grade novel, PICKLE, about a secret middle school prank society, has been selected for many reading lists and was a Children’s Choice Awards Book of the Year finalist, one of Mamiverse’s Top 50 Latinx Children’s Books, and the recipient of the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. She is a former teacher and crisis counselor. Her next middle grade novel, THE WATER BEARS, about wishes, maybe-magic, and a taco truck, will be out April 21, 2020 from Wendy Lamb Books/Random House.
https://www.kimbakerbooks.com/