Summer Books to Discover!

 

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1. Dream within a dream

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Author:
MacLachlan, Patricia
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"When eleven-year-old Louisa (short for Louisiana) is sent to stay with her grandparents for the summer, she's not looking forward to it. While her brother is determined to find a way to stay on Deer Island forever, Louisa would rather be off having adventures with their globetrotting ornithographer parents. She's a writer, and there's nothing on all of Deer Island to write about-right? Louisa quickly discovers that small doesn't necessarily mean...

2. Quicksand Pond

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Author:
Lisle, Janet Taylor
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Description:
Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose cconnection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.

3. The warden's daughter

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Author:
Spinelli, Jerry
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Description:
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.

4. Moon over Manifest

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Author:
Vanderpool, Clare
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Description:
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.