01428cam a2200205 4500 390699400 TxAuBib 20190830120000.0 190813|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062747273 $16.99 0062747274 $16.99 (OCoLC)1048442843 TxAuBib Kelly, Erin Entrada,. Lalani of the Distant Sea. Greenwillow Books, 20190903. <p>Sometimes you choose yourself.</p><p>Lalani Sarita faces an impossible future. Her mother has fallen ill and is unlikely to recover. Drum and Kul--her stepfather and stepbrother--are cruel and vindictive overlords. There is only cleaning and cooking and mending and errands--for someone such as Lalani, life on Sanlagita involves little else.</p><p>Lalani Sarita faces an impossible task.She only wanted to save Toppi. She only wanted to help her best friend, Veyda. But everything is her fault. Everything. The rain--coming now in torrents and causing unspeakable disaster--is all her fault.</p><p>So Lalani does what only one girl on the island of Sanlagita has ever done before. She slips into a small scouting boat and sets out across the Veiled Sea, looking for a different future. That other girl never returned. Will Lalani?</p><p>Sometimes you choose yourself.</p>. 20190830. TXJOU