Some summers are just destined to be pretty. Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer -- they have been her brother figures, her crushes,...

"In the summer, Emma and Owen visit Old Oak at the park. The park gets a new playground. Will the heat keep Emma and Owen from enjoying it?"--P. [4] of cover.

For Henry and his big dog Mudge, summer means going on a picnic in the park, taking a bath under the garden hose, and going to the top of the big green hill.

Lionel enjoys the longest day of summer, celebrates the Fourth of July, has a lemonade stand, and travels on vacation with his family.

As little Daisy waits on the island where her family lives for her grandmother to come visit, she spends seven days doing fun activities, and marking off the time on her calendar.

Whistling in the Dark captivated readers with the story of ten-year-old Sally O'Malley and her sister, Troo, during Milwaukee's summer of 1959. The novel became a New York Times bestseller and was named a Midwest Honor Award winner. In Good Graces, it's one year later, and a heat wave has everyone in the close-knit Milwaukee neighborhood on edge. None more so than Sally O'Malley, who remains deeply traumatized by the sudden death of her daddy and...

Presents a celebration of summer from a child's perspective.

During the summer a family of bears enjoys the comforts of life at a cottage by a lake, alongside the human visitors.

This story of a young girl who runs away from home to live with a Navajo family is based on the author's childhood.

"Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning." -- A group of teenagers-- some locals, some wealthy out-of-towners-- were together on the night one girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, the narrator pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family. What she learns is that no one, not even...