Sand Dollar Summer The sea gives, and the sea takes away. The sea gave me a great deal, but fickle as it is, it tried to steal it back, and nearly me with it. I had never been to the ocean before the year I turned thirteen. Until then I had grown up landlocked, where the only nearby water was a municipal swimming pool that burned my eyes red and turned my hair green. My brother and I lived with our mother is a safe, snug triangle: Mom was the base, and my brother and I were the sides that balanced upon her. We laughed a lot then, and I expected to go on that way forever, but the balance shifted suddenly, and everything changed. “A first-rate debut.” —School Library Journal, starred review “A heartfelt debut; a coming-of-age story with a bit of pathos and a perilously climactic finale." — Kirkus Reviews “Jones makes an impressive debut with this sensitively wrought novel about family love and adjustments to change.” — Publishers Weekly Review “The drama in Annalise’s smart, tough, first-person narrative is understated; the spaces between the words are as eloquent as what is said about the wildness of the setting and about the human secrets." — Booklist, starred review “For a debut author, Jones has penned one the best young adult novels of the year, graced with believable and endearing characters, a solid plot, and very smart dialogue.” —Kennebec Journal |
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