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The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune

The House in the Cerulean Sea is a heartwarming fantasy novel about acceptance, love, and finding where you truly belong. It follows Linus Baker, a quiet and rule-following man who works for a government agency that oversees magical children. One day, he’s sent on a special assignment to a mysterious orphanage by the sea, where six magical children live—each with strange and powerful abilities.

As Linus gets to know the children and their kind, protective caretaker, Arthur Parnassus, he starts to question the strict rules he’s always followed. The longer he stays, the more he realizes that family can come in many forms, and that sometimes the best way to help others is to listen, care, and believe in them.

This is a sweet, funny, and uplifting story that reminds us it’s okay to be different and that everyone deserves to be loved just as they are.