Everything Lost Comes to Me (Ages 8–12)

Hattie Dowling said four words she can never take back, and now her little brother lies silent in a hospital bed while the village of Grindle holds its breath. Out on the tidal marsh, something rises from the mud: a shaggy giant stitched from lost umbrellas, single gloves and rusted keys, offering to fetch back what she has lost. The price is memory. Every trade brings Toby closer to waking — and takes him further from her.