Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell - ADVISABLE


Mitchell, Saundra Shadowed Summer, 183 p. Delacorte (Random), 2009.

Content: G

El, MS - ADVISABLE

Iris wants something different to happen this summer - she's tired of hot, sticky, boring. While she and her best friend are messing around in the graveyard, Iris hears a voice. Over time she begins to think that she's hearing from Elijah - a teenager who disappeared many years earlier. But if so, Elijah is very angry and has a bone to pick with Iris and her family.

Though it has lots of tension and quite a bit of danger, its portrayed without gratuity. I hope Mitchell has as many books in her head as Mary Downing Hahn or Betty Ren Wright.

Cindy - Library Teacher.

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