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Asha Series, Book I: Somewhere New: A Story About Starting Over, Growing Up, and Finding Your Way Home

Asha Series, Book I: Somewhere New: A Story About Starting Over, Growing Up, and Finding Your Way Home

Dee, Nzinga

Paperback

Series: ASHA, Book 1

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN13: 9798252799025
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She has moved four times in thirteen years. She knows how to pack a life into two duffel bags. And she has been keeping her little brother safe since she was seven years old - because someone had to.

Asha Williams is good at starting over.

New city. New school. New block. She knows the rules: don't tell people your whole story, find the library first, don't let them see you cry. And above all else - watch out for Malik. Her six-year-old brother has been her responsibility since the day he was born. That's just how it is.

But when Asha's family moves in with their guarded, complicated Aunt Ree Ree, something begins to shift. There's a drummer at school named Dantay who notices more than he lets on. There's a loud boy named Tameel who is hiding something quieter beneath all his noise. And there's a man on the block - young, easy smile, always outside - who doesn't quite add up.

Asha notices him. She tells herself she's probably being paranoid.

She is not being paranoid.

When six-year-old Jordan Daniels goes missing one Tuesday afternoon, everything Asha has been holding - the watching, the guilt, the weight of being the one who never needs to be checked on - comes apart at once.

Somewhere New is a novel about what it costs to be the strong one. About the secrets families carry alone for decades, in the same shape, without knowing. About a thirteen-year-old girl who has spent her whole life keeping watch - and who must finally learn that some things were never hers to carry.

It is also a story about drumbeats and window seats and cornbread on a rainy Saturday. About two sisters rebuilding what silence broke between them. About the difference between keeping watch and doing everything. About putting something down - and finding that someone is there to help you carry it.

Warm, honest, and quietly urgent - this is a book that trusts its readers with real things.

Ages 10 and up

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