Summertime brings the Fletcher Family back to Rock Island where the good times never end, but this summer the boys' favorite lighthouse is all boarded up and with the help from their new neighbors, the Garcia girls, the boys are determined to find out what is really happening with their lighthouse and saving it, no matter what the cost.
Sand Dollar Summer by Kimberly Jones
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
Ivy Takes Care by Rosemary Wells
Brokenhearted when her best friend departs for the summer, Ivy spends her own summer caring for animals in the mid-century Southwest, sharing her season of discovery with a stubborn pony, a mischievous puppy, and a scarred racehorse.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
The Great Good Summer by Liz Scanlon
Loomer, Texas, twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.
More Summer Stories --
Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Summer Vacation by Tommy Greenwald
The Forget-Me-Not Summer by Leila Howland
Melonhead and the Big Stink by Katy Kelly
Morgy's Musical Summer by Maggie Lewis
Summer According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
The Summer Experiment by Cathie Pelletier
Summer of the War by Gloria Whelan
Summer with Elisa by Johanna Hurwitz
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
When My Sister Started Kissing by Helen Frost
Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through July 7, 2017.
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