Across the Pond

From the author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost comes a heartwarming story about new beginnings,burgeoning friendshipsand finding your flock. Callie canΓÇÖt wait for her new life to start. After a major friendship breakup in San Diegomoving overseas to Scotland gives her the perfect chance to reinvent herself. On top of thatsheΓÇÖs going to live in a real-life castle! But as romantic as life in a castle soundsthe reality is a little less comfortable: itΓÇÖs run-downfreezingand crawling with critters. Plusstarting off on the wrong foot with the gardenerΓÇÖs granddaughter doesnΓÇÖt help her nerves about making new friends. So she comes up with the perfect solution: sheΓÇÖll be homeschooled. Her parents agreeon one condition: she has to participate in a social activity. Inspired by a journal that she finds hidden in her bedroomCallie decides to join a birding club. Sureit sounds unusualbut at least itΓÇÖs not sports or performing. But when she clashes with the club leadershe risks losing a set of friends all over again. Will she ever be able to find her flock and make this strange new place feel like home?