Summer Sanctuary - Softcover

Gray, Laurie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935462342 ISBN 13: 9781935462347

Publisher: Luminis Books, Inc., 2010

Synopsis

Luminis Books presents this heart-warming tale of family, friendship, and finding one's place in the world.
 
Matthew knows that this summer is going to be the worst ever. His best friend Kyle is gone, his younger brother Mark has surpassed him in size and athletic ability, and his mother is pregnant for the fifth time.
 
The eldest home-schooled son of a preacher, Matthew plans to bury himself in books about the speed of light and Einstein's Theory of Relativity to see if he can prove his own theory about the dilation of time.
 
Instead, he befriends Dinah, a homeless teenager seeking refuge at the library. Although from very different backgrounds, Matthew and Dinah come to realize that they have a great deal in common--their love for music, and for cans of olives and potato chips found in a supermarket dumpster that are just past the sell-by date . . . and maybe even for each other.
 
Matthew struggles with his feelings for his own family as he helps Dinah avoid Child Welfare. And in the process, Dinah helps him discover that even the smallest acts of kindness can make a very big difference.
 
YOUNG ADULT / LITERARY FICTION / CHRISTIAN / COMING-OF-AGE / CHILD WELFARE / POVERTY / SMART KIDS / GOOD ROLEMODELS

About this title

About the Author:

Laurie Gray earned her B.A. from Goshen College and her J.D. from Indiana University School of Law. Between college and law school, she taught high school Spanish, working summers as an interpreter in Guatemala. An experienced trial attorney and child advocate, Laurie is the founder of Socratic Parenting LLC (SocraticParenting.com). Laurie@ debut novel Summer Sanctuary received a Moonbeam Gold Medal for excellence in young adult fiction and was named a 2011 Indiana Best Book Finalist. She has two additional novels and a parenting book scheduled for publication through Luminis Books: Maybe I Will (2013), Just Myrto (2014), and A Simple Guide to Socratic Parenting (2014). In addition to writing, speaking and consulting through Socratic Parenting LLC, Laurie works as an adjuct professor of criminal sciences at Indiana Tech and as a bilingual forensic interviewer at the Dr. Bill Lewis Center for Children in Fort Wayne, IN.

About this edition

• Publisher: Luminis Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935462342
• ISBN 13: 9781935462347
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 193