Kathryn Apel 
What Snail Knows 

A moving story about a shy girl coming out of her shell with a little help from her pet snail. Lucy and Dad move a lot, so it’s hard to make friends. Lucy’s glad she has Snail, the perfect pet for a lonely girl. If only she had her own shell to hide in every time she started at a new school. But this place is different. She likes her teacher, Miss Darling. She likes her classmates, especially Tahnee. She even likes Mei-hui’s van park, where she lives with Dad and Snail. This place feels like home. Can she convince her dad to stay?