National Network for Equitable Library Service

Arto has lived his whole life in the snowy, cold North, and six years is a long time. When his mom gets a new job and the family prepares to spend a year in the South, Arto is not happy at all.

Whether it’s raccoons, the dark, math, or whatever lurks in the bathtub, everybody is afraid of something.

In a brief, panicked moment, Rick mistakes the kindness of an apparent stranger for a threatening act, and inadvertently commits murder.