Request #372 From Paven

I’m looking for three books I read in middle school. I’ve scoured every thrift store and book shop in search of these 😭😭😭😭

1. The cover featured some kind of alley, it may have been garden or Victorian themed, and a gate that implied it went to another world. The authors last name likely started with A – K, probably no further than K. I don’t remember the plot, other than it had to do with the dimension shifting gate! 😭

2. I never saw the cover to this one, it was gone! The plot had to do with a boy who didn’t know how to swim, and a sweet old man taught him how to swim. Their beach side town gets hit by a Storm or tsunami in the climax of the book.

3. A slice of life story, I think the cover featured a bicycle and nothing else. I think the plot involved someone stealing the bike. It was a very simple straight forward story.