A summer to die
Record details
- ISBN: 0547345542 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780547345543 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (154 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
Content descriptions
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Individuality Fiction Sisters Fiction Death Fiction Individuality Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Death Juvenile fiction |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | DIGITAL (Text) | 60395-1001 | Alaska Digital Library E-Book | Available | - |
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Kirkus Review
A Summer to Die
Kirkus Reviews
Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
An appealing first novel--brisk, witty, affecting--involving a teenager's experience with an older sister's death from leukemia. Meg Chalmers is a plucky thirteen-year-old, tongue-in-cheek and heart-on-sleeve, exploring her feelings with a careful balance of insight and insecurity. Recently relocated to an old country house so Dad can finish his book, she suffers familiar resentments--a shared room with sister Molly, fifteen and pretty--but enjoys photography and a rare trio of neighbors, all older and understanding. Individual personalities are established, integrated, and then tested when a worrisome development surfaces; Molly requires hospitalization and extensive treatment, and Meg realizes she is losing more than a sparring partner. Meg's natural candor and muffled humor are encouraged by the neighbors--a seventy-ish gent who shares his camera and vitality, and an oddball, loving couple whose baby's birth (with Meg as house photographer) acids more than a pat ""new life"" contrast to Molly's approaching death. An attractive, laconic heroine in an upbeat presentation of a most difficult subject. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.