The Move

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Fourteen-year-old Juliana tries to make herself heard after a big move leaves her feeling ignored.

Juliana's parents didn't ask her opinion about moving half-way across the second largest country in the world. They didn't ask if she minded interrupting her last year of junior high or first year of dance apprenticeship training. And they certainly didn't ask if she wanted to be separated from her best friend of ten years.

Instead, Juliana spends a week trapped with her parents in an SUV as they repeatedly tell her why she has to begin a new life in a new city. When they arrive at her grandfather's, she tries her best to be polite to everyone, but it's all too much.

Overwhelmed by the size of her mother's family, Juliana escapes to the musty basement of her grandfather's home. There, she discovers an old sketchbook of unknown people, struggles, and celebrations, all drawn by an artist about her age. Who is this person? What do these drawings mean?

And why does the artist feel familiar to Juliana?

The Move is the first book in Lori Wolf-Heffner's uplifting YA series, Between Worlds, which follows two teenaged girls growing up a century apart.

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About the author

Lori Wolf-Heffner

Across the tracks and up a set of cement stairs from Lori's grandmother’s home was Belmont Village, a quaint shopping strip with restaurants, a drug store, a convenience store, and several small businesses. Her grandmother, who lived in the Belmont neighbourhood, always bought lottery tickets at the convenience store and often took Lori and her sister there to buy them each a sugary treat. The neighbourhood for Lori means family and romance, which is why she's set both her young adult and romance series there. 
Lori is also a former competitive dancer, dance teacher, and theatre manager, and was a member of the first Canadian National Tap Team, back in 1996, under the leadership of Bonnie Dyer, with choreographer Mathew Clark. Dance took Lori to competitions all over Southern Ontario, into the US, to Disney World, and to Germany. She has many fond memories of performing with her dance team. 
And that's why she uses dance as a backdrop in many of her stories. 
Oh! And she's also spent a day in Luxembourg, 15 minutes in Switzerland, and she can still do cartwheels.