Florida Town: 4 books

Sixty years ago, Britannia was the home of the largest copper mine in the British Empire. Several thousand people lived in its two main communities: the Townsite and the Beach. Although it was a scant 50 miles from Vancouver, it was accessible only by boat, as were its neighboring communities of Squamish...

Merribeth is getting ready for the regional swim meet finals - when her parents tell her she has to go to Arizona with her grandmother instead. It sounds like a trip to purgatory but it doesn't turn out that way. When her best friend, stage-struck Jennifer, is included in the trip, interesting things begin to happen.

Ellen is blindsided by her husband's request for a divorce and the news that everything she thought they jointly owned is in his name. Depressed and defeated, her life spirals out of control, until she impulsively decides to buy a bike and attempt the journey of a lifetime. Nervous and tenuous...

Sahiras story is a tale of two friends, Sahira and Christie, who live next door to each other and became as close as sisters. Both are only children. Christie is part of a single-parent family, with her dad as her only parent. Sahira is the child of immigrants. The differences between the two seem...