Book description
By the author of the Newbery Honor book Belle Prater's Boy
It is the mid-1950s, and Lyrics familys dream is finally coming true -- they are moving from the backwoods of southwest Virginia to Flint, Michigan, where her father hopes to get an assembly-line job for a car manufacturer. Thirteen-year-old…
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1 author picked Memories of Summer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is one of my all-time favorite books. I read this book in third grade when I found it in the stacks of my school library. I love this book because when I was a little girl, I was learning more about my mother’s mental health struggles and experiencing grief from my father’s death.
I dove into the story of Lyric’s childhood and her relationship with her big sister, Summer, who was Schizophrenic. I gained a better understanding of the complexities of mental illness and what it can look like navigating that with family. It taught me early on that…
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