Rebecca Lowry Warchut

In Lys in Cyberland, 11-year-old Lys must navigate group chats, sleep deprivation, brain rot, viral trends, and tween beauty culture when she falls into the rabbit hole that is her first cell phone. 

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Rebecca Lowry Warchut writes about what's broken in the world--and what might heal it. An alumni of Wake Forest University, Teach for America, and Bank Street College of Education, she currently teaches writing and social studies in Simsbury, Connecticut. She runs a Girl Scout Troop, serves on the Girls Write Now Anthology Editorial Committee, and is the secretary for the Foundation for West Hartford Public Schools. Rebecca lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters.

Vera Garcia's soccer career is suddenly sidelined at the start of her senior year when she's blinded by a brain tumor. When her single mother clings too tightly, both Vera's identity and her freedom are in jeopardy. They make it to St. Petersburg, Florida for surgery just as Hurricane Phoenix turns toward them. 

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Will they succumb to loss? Or like the phoenix, reinvent themselves and rise anew?