St. Antoine, Sara Three Bird Summer, 246 p, Candlewick
Press, c2014. $16.99 Language: G; Mature content: G; Violence: G;
Adam and his recently divorced mother, spend
the summers at his grandmother’s cabin in the woods. This summer is a defining
visit to see if “grandma” is healthy enough to continue living year round
isolated on Three Bird Lake. A “new” family has bought the property next to
grandma’s and they have a girl Adam’s age, Alice. Together Adam and Alice
explore nature native to the lake and solve a treasure map that has eluded
grandma since her first love over 50 years before.
This was a realistic
fiction that soothes the soul. I encountered no messy family issues, no drugs,
no sex, no violence, just comfortable reading. St. Antoine developed characters
true to life, a daughter worried about her aging mother, a tween boy coming of
age, a feisty grandma who is committed to her independence. Nature is painted
in detail from the brightness of the stars to a pair of mink silently moving in
the dusk.
EL, MS – ADVISABLE. Sandra
Doehler, MLIS, Oquirrh Hills Middle School, Riverton, UT
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