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There are ghosts at Bird Lake, and they're haunting Mitch Sinclair and Spencer Stone. Not the Halloween kind, but ghosts of the past. Memories of how life was before—before the divorce, before the accident. Can their ghosts bring Mitch and Spencer together, as friends? Or will their secrets keep them apart?
Either way, it is a summer that neither Mitch nor Spencer will ever forget.
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Kevin Henkes is an award-winning author and illustrator of many books for children of all ages. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s First Full Moon; Caldecott Honors for Waiting and Owen; two Newbery Honors—one for Olive’s Ocean and one for The Year of Billy Miller—and Geisel Honors for Waiting and Penny and Her Marble. His other books include Egg, Old Bear, A Good Day, Chrysanthemum, and the beloved Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. Kevin Henkes lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. www.kevinhenkes.com
*Starred Review* Mitch Sinclair, 12, is at Bird Moon Lake because his parents are divorcing. But there are tense moments with his grandparents, so Mitch fantasizes about moving into the empty house next door. Then Spencer Stone and his family, who own the cottage, arrive. Spencer and younger sister love the lake, but it’s also the place where their barely remembered brother, Matty, drowned at age four. Told in overlapping chapters, the story is spare. Mitch tricks Spencer into thinking Matty is haunting them; then he does something worse. After the boys become friends, the truth becomes both barrier and bridge. As in his Newbery Honor Book Olive’s Ocean (2003), every word counts, moving the story forward moment by moment. Yet the writing is as evocative as it is precise: fireflies are “pinpricks of topaz.” Emotions are just as carefully carved, turning characterization into portraiture; the children stand out in relief, against the deceptive tranquility of the lake. Some children may find the story too quiet or the ending too abrupt. But Henkes knows children and their secrets, and readers will lean close to hear the whispers. Grades 5-7. --Ilene Cooper
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- Publication date2010
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. Told in alternating voices, this smart and engaging middle grade novel from the beloved Kevin Henkes is the story of two boys coming together in friendship as they struggle with family conflicts and tragedy.There are ghosts at Bird Lake, and they're haunting Mitch and Spencer. Not the Halloween kind, but ghosts of the past. Memories of how life was before-before the divorce, before the accident. Can their ghosts bring Mitch and Spencer together, as friends? Or will their secrets keep them apart?Mitch feels isolated at his grandparents house and cant help hating his father, who walked out on him and his mom two and a half weeks earlier. Spencers family has decided its finally time to return to Bird Lake, years after his brother, Matty, drowned there. Both boys arrive at the lake scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start healing.Superbly crafted. A must have for every library. -School Library Journal (starred review)In a novel as tender as his acclaimed Olives Ocean, Henkes probes the psyches of two boys facing family conflicts.-Publishers Weekly (starred review). Seller Inventory # DADAX0061470791
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Mitch doesnt initially mean to scare the family that arrives at the empty cottage next to his grandparents. Or lie to them. And so when Mitch becomes friends with the familys son, Spencer, he wishes he could take it back. All of it. A story about friendship and family, and that growing-up moment when you stop telling everything and start holding some things in, from the acclaimed Kevin Henkes, who is, as the New York Times proclaims, a master of the middle grade novel.Awards:Washington Post Book World Best Kids Books of the YearBook Sense Summer 2008 PickChicago Public Library Best of the Best Book Told in alternating voices, this smart and engaging middle grade novel from the beloved Kevin Henkes is the story of two boys coming together in friendship as they struggle with family conflicts and tragedy.There are ghosts at Bird Lake, and they're haunting Mitch and Spencer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780061470790
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