![]() ![]() I only vaguely remember the plot of A Summer to Die but I do recall being deeply engrossed and even staying up late one night to finish reading it with the door closed and a flashlight under the covers because my dad had yelled at me for the 4th time "Go to bed, tomorrow is a school day!". Martin, Barthe DeClements, and Louis Sachar are largely responsible for very early in life shaping my love of books. Taylor, Ellen Conford, Judy Blume, Beaverly Cleary, Anne M. ![]() I like to think authors like Lois Lowry, Mildred D. Sure, my taste has morphed a great deal from the angsty middle grade fiction that is A Summer to Die but that tingle felt when opening a new book, the excitement from walking into a library/bookstore, and general PASSION for all things literary are still there. A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry tells the story of thirteen-year-old Meg Chalmers whose whole life is turned upside down when her parents, Charles and Lydia Chalmers, tell her and her fifteen-year-old sister, Molly, that they will be closing up their family home in the small New England town where they live and moving to a country farmhouse. I probably read it about 30 years ago but thinking about it and all the other Lois Lowry books I read way back when (I freakin' LOVED the Anastasia series) made me realize how much I have ALWAYS loved reading. ![]() Golly! I had this book on my mind recently for some reason. ![]()
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