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The last thing twelve-year-old Dagmar wants is to spend her summer vacation squished into a tiny house with her dad, her stepmom, and her annoying five-year-old half brother. But after a sudden financial setback, her family is evicted from their Oakland apartment, and that's just where they end up, parked among the towering redwoods of Northern California.As Dagmar explores the forest around their new and (hopefully) temporary home, she discovers they are living next door to an eccentric tech billionaire and his very unusual extended family. There's his brother, a woodsman who sets dangerous booby traps all over the place, and his sister, a New Age animal lover who meditates to whale songs in an isolation tank. And then there's the billionaire's son, Blake, who has everything he could ever wish for--except maybe a friend.



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Keir Graff

Keir Graff writes thrillers and suspense novels for adults, both under his own name and with Linda Joffe Hull as Linda Keir. Their second novel together, DROWNING WITH OTHERS, is an Amazon First Reads Selection.He edited the anthologies A MILLION ACRES: MONTANA WRITERS REFLECT ON LAND AND OPEN SPACE and (with James Grady) MONTANA NOIR, one of Parade's "Books We Love."Graff is also the author of three middle-grade novels, including the THE PHANTOM TOWER, a fantasy/adventure named one of the Best Children's Books of 2018 by the Chicago Tribune. His previous book for young readers, THE MATCHSTICK CASTLE, was an official Illinois Reads 2018 selection.An in-demand speaker at libraries, schools, and conferences, he is the co-host of Publishing Cocktails, a literary meetup in Chicago. You can find him on Twitter (@KeirGraff, @Editor_Keir) , Facebook (Keir.Graff.Author) , and at www.keirgraff.com.



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