Description: Soccer teammates Sadie and Pug work together to solve the disappearance of their beloved team captain who was pulled from school before the most important game of the season.
Brief description: Laurie Morrison taught middle school for ten years before writing Every Shiny Thing, her middle-grade debut with co-author Cordelia Jensen. She is also the author of Up for Air, Saint Ivy, and Coming Up Short. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.
Review Quotes:
"I finished this riveting epistolary mystery in a single sitting. Imagine if Judy Blume wrote Only Murders In the Building. Told through journal entries, podcast transcripts, texts, and narrative prose, Where Ella Went is not only the story of a star soccer player's disappearance, but also a complex, funny, and empathetic study in teen friendships, forgiveness, and mental health issues. Middle school readers won't be able to put it down."
-- "Ali Terese, National Book Award nominee and author of Free Period and Vote for the G.O.A.T"