The Houseboat Homework Club
After flood damage forces eleven-year-old Mara onto her aunt's crowded houseboat, she needs one thing almost as badly as dry socks: a quiet place to finish homework. So she pulls a bent folding table onto the dock, finds a few pencils, and starts a club for kids who need help.
Soon the Floating Homework Club has schedules, library backup, and students who count on it. Then every family receives a seven-day relocation notice. As the dock's future hangs in balance, Mara's attendance sheets and repair notes begin to matter far beyond school. But the papers also lead her to a secret agreement tied to her father's debt and Aunt Lila's fear.
Set along the Mississippi near St. Louis, this warm, fast-moving story follows a practical girl who learns that loyalty is not keeping quiet. Sometimes it is helping people tell the truth, then building something strong enough to hold them together.
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Narrow Water
The first thing Mara learned about living on a boat was that every noise had a job.
The water slapped the hull because it had nowhere else to go. The refrigerator clicked because Aunt Lila had plugged it into shore power with a cable as thick as Mara's wrist. Somebody on the next boat dropped a wrench, and the dock carried the clang through Mara's pillow like it was trying to wake her up for school.
Her old bedroom had been narrow, but it had a door. This one had a curtain printed with yellow lemons. Behind it stood the dinette table, folded down into a bed. Her backpack sat under her feet. Her damp math book lay on top of it with its pages puffed like it had swallowed a sponge.
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