Skye Nickson's world changed forever when her dad went on the run with her brother, Finn. It's been four years without Finn's jokes, four years without her father's old soul music, and four years of Skye filling in as Rent-a-Finn on his MIA birthdays for their mom. Finn's birthday is always difficult, but at least Skye has her best friends, Reece and Jax, to lean on, even if Reece has started acting too cool for them.

But this year is different because after Finn's birthday, they get a call that he's finally been found. Tall, quiet, and secretive, this Finn is nothing like the brother she grew up with. He keeps taking late-night phone calls and losing his new expensive gifts, and he doesn't seem to remember any of their inside jokes or secrets.

As Skye tries to make sense of it all through the lens of her old Polaroid camera, she starts to wonder: Could this Finn be someone else entirely? And if everyone else has changed, does it mean that Skye has to change too? (From HarperCollins)

The Shape of Lost Things is for ages 8-12.

Sarah Everett is a writer, based in Alberta. She has written several books for children and teenagers, including The Probability of Everything which won the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature — text, Some Other Now, How to Live without You and No One Here is Lonely. CBC Books named Everett a Black Canadian writer to watch in 2024.