The Larson Chronicles
Four interconnected novels set in Clearview, Minnesota. Honest about hard things, age-appropriate, and hopeful.
Book One: The Grade Shift
When fifteen-year-old Liv Larson notices a grade in the school portal that doesn't add up, she assumes it's a glitch - until she finds another. And another. Someone is changing grades across the school, and no one else seems to be asking why. As Liv follows the pattern through report cards, hallway rumors, and an investigation that costs her more than she expects, she uncovers a truth far more complicated than cheating - one that forces her to reckon with what fairness actually costs, and who gets to decide what someone deserves.
A story about noticing what others miss, and the harder work of understanding it.
Book Two: Sixteen from Memories
Thirteen-year-old Axel Larson has a summer, an idea, and one hundred days: collect sixteen family recipes from sixteen households around Clearview - one for each year of his sister Liv's life - and give them to her, handmade, on her sixteenth birthday. What starts as a birthday gift becomes something bigger: a door into the kitchens, histories, and quiet kept stories of an entire town, and the discovery that the people who feed you are often the ones who know you best.
A story about paying attention, and what you find when you finally do.
Book Three: Community Secrets
Sixteen-year-old Rory Vega has always been the quiet one who notices everything. When a decades-old family secret begins to surface - one that reaches back to an injustice Clearview has spent generations trying not to talk about - she has to decide how far she's willing to go to uncover the truth, and what it will cost the people she's starting to trust.
A story about inheritance, courage, and the weight of a hometown's history.
Book Four: The North Road
Finn Larson runs the same road every morning without quite knowing why it matters to him - until an old photograph and a buried family history turn a quiet routine into an answer generations in the making. At home, the Larson family faces its own year of change, learning what it means to hold a family together when someone you love is far away.
A story about roots, patience, and the things worth running toward.
