When Life Gives You Mangoes

Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic—but there’s nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangoes off the ground, running outside in the rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah, even though lately Gaynah hasn’t been acting like a best friend.

The only thing in Clara’s life that’s out of the ordinary is her memory: a hurricane hit last summer and now she can’t remember anything that happened that season. Sometimes things co…