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Sand Castle Dreams

by Taylor Bennett

Grief, friendship, and faith on Maui

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Grief, friendship, and faith on Maui

Back on Maui after a difficult summer in Boston, sixteen-year-old Olive Galloway hopes life will settle into a new normal. Instead, her friend Jazz’s undisclosed secret and the prospect of joining a church teen support group bring Olive’s own grief into sharper focus. The story connects friendship and loss with questions of faith, while a puppy and a viral video add new complications to Olive’s return. Maui is more than a backdrop: it is the island Olive and her sister love, now changed by what they have experienced. The central tension turns on whether Olive can face painful memories rather than keep them at a distance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teen readers interested in stories about friendship, grief, and recovery after loss.
  • Readers seeking young adult fiction that includes religion, faith, and a church teen support group.
  • Readers interested in a story set on Maui and centered on a sixteen-year-old protagonist.

Themes

Grief and lossFriendship and secretsFaith and communityFacing painful memories

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Book overview

Sometimes we have to face our greatest fears in order to become whole again.

Returning to Maui after one of the most challenging summers of her life, sixteen-year-old Olive Galloway is ready for things to return to normal--or, at least, a new normal. But even though she and her sister are back on the island they love, nothing is the same since they left for Boston a few months ago. Olive's friend Jazz is hiding a secret--possibly something even worse than the cancer diagnosis she received earlier in the year. Can Olive ever stop running from memories of all they've lost?

When their friend Brander suggests Jazz attends the church's teen support group, Olive thinks it's a great idea--until Jazz insists that Olive join her. While the group is the perfect place for Olive to share her struggles, she wants nothing to do with it. Instead, grief threatens to roll over her like the ocean waves, and tiny fibs turn into looming secrets. When a scruffy puppy and one viral video send another storm rolling into Olive's life, she ends up face-to-face with her biggest fear. And the only way to make it out of the tempest is to go straight through.

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