[LM_NET] BOOK REVIEW: middle school age

[Diane Lungaro <dianelu@YAHOO.COM>]

I just read "Sand Dollar Summer", Kimberly K. Jones' first novel.  It was a 
wonderful story of a 12-year-old girl, her younger selectively mute brother, and 
their mom.  I couldn't put it down and hope that when I introduce my middle school 
students to this book, they enjoy it as much as I did.  
   
  Here's the summary from the cataloging record:
   
  "When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her 
self-reliant mother and bright - but oddly mute - younger brother, her formerly 
safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood 
friend, and a hurricane."
   
  I hope that this author continues to write children's fiction - this first book 
was certainly well-done and an interesting "growing-up" story.
   
  Diane


Diane Lungaro, librarian 
dianelu@yahoo.com 
Sussex Middle School 
Sussex-Wantage Regional Schools District 
Sussex, NJ 07461



                
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