From the bestselling, award-winning author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Home comes an extraordinary story about two friends, a ghost, a missing painting, and a turtle named Agatha.

A painting has been stolen…!

When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: she looks just like the girl in the painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the theft?

Dear Reader,

Recently, I was on a panel where I was asked to describe my middle school self using only one word. I eventually said “hiding.” And I was hiding—from bullies, and from myself. I kept my head down. My favorite place in the world was the library, and I used books as a hiding place, an escape.

Early on, I also used writing as a way to hide. I thought the point was to disguise myself from the world. Only later did I come to realize that my stories began to come alive when I put myself—my heart—into them. I bury my emotional truths in the text in hopes that perhaps in discovering my heart on the page, readers will learn something about their own hearts as well.