Katherine Arden

Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow

What if a vampire army came through the gates right now? Or no, it’s sunny. Werewolves? Or what if the Brewsters’ Halloween skeleton decided to unhook himself from the third-floor window and lurch out the door?

She wanted to go outside, she wanted to ride her bike, and she didn’t want to rejoin chess club

The entire sixth grade was staring. The kids in front started backing away. A lot of them thought she had cracked since last year

It was good to be alone in the warm sunshine. The river ran silver to her right, chattering over rocks. The fire-colored trees shook their leaves down around her. It wasn’t hot, exactly—but warm for October.

The swimming hole was Ollie’s favorite place. Not far from her house, it had a secret spot on a rock half-hidden by a waterfall.

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Reading it meant going to a new place where she wasn’t Olivia Adler at all.

There was a cliff for jumping and plenty of hiding places for one girl and her book

She was eager to go and read by the water and be alone