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By Chad Morris & Shelly Brown
Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2023. 250 pages

Eleven-year-old Juniper Berry lives off the grid in the California woods with her family, but when her brother gets sick, they have to leave to get help. -- Editor

By Chad Morris & Shelly Brown
Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2018. 252 pages

Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school. -- Editor

By Chad Morris & Shelly Brown
Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2017. 245 pages

Inspired by the true story. Maddie is a normal twelve-year-old, but when a CT scan reveals she has a brain tumor, it will take all her imagination, courage, and support from her friends and family to meet this new challenge. -- Publisher

By Chad Morris & Shelly Brown
Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2025. Fiction. 244 pages

After being cut from the middle school basketball team, twelve-year-old Jax forms his own team with an unlikely group of students to prove themselves to the whole school. -- Editor

By Chad Morris & Shelly Brown
Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2023. 252 pages

A mysterious package. A new school. A chance to be someone new. A new virtual reality school where students get a fresh start. The pandemic was rough on everyone, especially since school went from being a fun place where you could hang out with your friends to a bunch of heads in small rectangles all trying to talk at once. For Bradley, Edelle, Hunter, Jasper, and Keiko, that's about to change. A mysterious box arrives at each of their houses, and they're invited to attend a virtual school. More than just being online, they'll be able to create an avatar of themselves and interact with their friends and other classmates in real time using VR headsets. For each of them, that presents an opportunity to become someone they're not, or someone they haven't been. For Bradley, it's a chance to come out of a self-imposed shell. Edelle hopes everyone will see her for who she really is, not just for how she looks. Hunter is looking forward to pretending he's still the person he was last year. Jasper wants to get over past assumptions. And for Keiko, it'll allow her to disappear into the crowd. For all of them, it's a chance to see just how much they've assumed about each other in the past and maybe an opportunity to become friends. --Publisher

By Chad Morris & Shelly Brown
Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2020. 252 pages

Twelve-year-old Willa, grieving the loss of her mother, a renowned marine biologist, discovers she can talk to whales. -- Publisher
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