Hurricane Mia
by Gillian Swart
There’s a hurricane coming, but as far as storms go, it’s pretty tame. Former businesswoman and author Donna Seim humbly hopes it’s enjoyable to children.
Hurricane Mia: a Caribbean Adventure is Seim’s latest book, her first for middle-grade readers, and it will be launched from her former business, The Dragon’s Nest in Market Square, Newbury (Turks & Caicos Islands) from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
As the story goes, Mia is a 12-year-old girl from Boston whose mother is sick, and so, with her brother, is whisked away ‑ against her will ‑ to a remote Caribbean island for a summer with her grandparents. She is not happy about it, the author notes.
“She’s quite feisty,” says Seim. “She’s not happy, so she’s going to let everyone around her know that. I think she’s the kind of protagonist that girls will identify with.”
After meeting an island girl named Neisha and a search for the tea that cures everything ‑ at least, according to Neisha ‑ Mia’s attitude undergoes an adjustment. With Neisha, Mia and her brother Jack sail the high seas, search uninhabited islands and meet wild creatures in their quest to find the magical tea…
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