Sweet Tea & Snap Peas

McCaid Paul is a Southern writer raised in the pines of rural Florida. He is the author of Dead River, The Forgotten Headline, Mooch & Marlow, and others. His short works have been published in the Blackwater Review of Northwest Florida State College. When he's not daydreaming about new stories, you can find him taking long hikes in the woods, fishing for hours at a time on the Choctawhatchee or drinking too much coffee and sweet tea. To learn more, visit him online at mccaidpaulbooks.com or on Instagram, Facebook, andTikTok @mccaidpaul.

Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Sean Dietrich, and Fannie Flagg, Sweet Tea & Snap Peas is a nostalgic, heartwarming family story full of southern wit and charm.¿¿Sixth-grader Clint Boone knows that change is inevitable, but that doesn't mean he has to like it. Ever since he lost his parents in a car crash five years ago, he worries about everything. At the top of his list of worries: his first day of middle school at a new school-meaning the likelihood of eating alone, being teased about his southern accent, or getting his head dunked down a toilet just increased. Clint's only constants are his sweet tea-drinking, pea-shelling grandparents, who are always there when he needs them.However, only a day into an already troubling school year, Clint's grandparents soon welcome seven-year-old Rhett, a distant relative, into their home. Now Clint has a rambunctious new sibling that he never asked for-one who shakes up his relationship with Grandma and Grandpa, and requires much more of their attention than he likes. As he struggles to adjust to Rhett, a new school, and a sixth-grade bully, Clint begins to learn that life's curveballs may not be such a bad thing...until the curveball that upends Clint's entire world.