Hurricane Child: Hope in a Box by Kacen Callender

This book follows twelve-year-old Caroline as she searches for her missing mother during a massive storm while navigating severe bullying, local spirits, and her first same-sex crush. 

 

This book contains: adolescence romance (not explicit), alcohol (references), alternate gender/sexual ideologies, bullying (severe), child abuse by authority figure, controversial gender, racial and religious commentary, death/grief, depression, home invasion, murder, parental abandonment , profanity, suicide (attempt/ideation-not explicit), supernatural themes, theft (minor) and violence.