A summer to die

Lois Lowry

Book - 1977

Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.

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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1977.
Language
English
Main Author
Lois Lowry (-)
Other Authors
Jenni Oliver (illustrator)
Physical Description
154 p. : ill
ISBN
9780395253380
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Review by Booklist Review

Meg, 13, envies her older sister's popularity and prettiness and struggles with Molly's degenerating illness and eventual death.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

An appealing first novel--brisk, witty, affecting--involving a teenager's experience with an older sister's death from leukemia. Meg Chalmers is a plucky thirteen-year-old, tongue-in-cheek and heart-on-sleeve, exploring her feelings with a careful balance of insight and insecurity. Recently relocated to an old country house so Dad can finish his book, she suffers familiar resentments--a shared room with sister Molly, fifteen and pretty--but enjoys photography and a rare trio of neighbors, all older and understanding. Individual personalities are established, integrated, and then tested when a worrisome development surfaces; Molly requires hospitalization and extensive treatment, and Meg realizes she is losing more than a sparring partner. Meg's natural candor and muffled humor are encouraged by the neighbors--a seventy-ish gent who shares his camera and vitality, and an oddball, loving couple whose baby's birth (with Meg as house photographer) acids more than a pat ""new life"" contrast to Molly's approaching death. An attractive, laconic heroine in an upbeat presentation of a most difficult subject. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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