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Title	:	A Summer to Die
Author	:	Lois Lowry
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 120 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1983 by Laurel Leaf (first published April 27th 1977)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction

A Summer to Die

Lois Lowry

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 120 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 6423 Users | 629 Reviews

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I haven't read this book since I was eleven or twelve, but I bought a used copy because I have such extremely fond memories of it. My copy has new cover art, so I got all nostalgic seeing the thumbnail of the old cover here.

It's funny how much of this book I remembered vividly and how much I'd forgotten all together. It's a beautiful story, though, through and through, the kind that makes me happy to be alive.

I recall relating to Meg so much as a kid, so I was surprised to find myself relating to her even more as an adult, both in retrospect and present-day ways. It makes me happy to think I read this back when I was still figuring out who I was; if this book informed current me at all, I couldn't thank Lois Lowry enough.

This time around I was irritated with the parents for not giving Meg more information about what was going on with Molly. I also wish Ben and Maria hadn't been married and that everyone had learned a beautiful lesson about nontraditional relationships. But these are honestly small quibbles. I love this book, and I treasure it.

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Original Title:	A Summer to Die
ISBN:	0440219175 (ISBN13: 9780440219170)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Massachusetts Children's Book Award (1981), IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award (1978), California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult (1981)

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I remember really enjoying this book. What can I say: I love stories about people with cancer, especially young people. And, as an only child, I also love reading about families/siblings, and this is a great sister story.

This book is "unofficial" because I read it many times as a child, though haven't seen it in probably ten years. What I can't believe is that it's actually out of print! Fortunately there are enough copies of this wonderful book floating around to make it easily findable.I just learned that A Summer to Die was actually Lois Lowry's first young adult novel, written in the 1970s, well before the Anastasia books and Number the Stars and The Giver and basically being one of the most important writer

I first encountered this book when my library was weeding its children's paperback collection. I grabbed several out of the pile destined for the recycling bin, including this one. I knew Lowry's work, but I didn't know this was her first novel, or how good it would end up being.I loved it. It was beautifully written from start to finish. The setting was rich with detail and made me want to move to the New England countryside and start my own garden. It was a bit slow to get going, but once the

A gift from Amy! Thank you Amy! I finished reading this at 2:30am this morning when I couldn't sleep.I almost didn't want to read this because it is like a little dandelion poof of a book, it is so super small I was like, I'll blink and I'll miss it! What if I hurt it! I'd never read it before because as a kid I was snotty about the kill-me-now melodramas of Lurlene McDaniel and ilk. (Please see Somewhere Between YA Lit and Death.) However, this meant I overlooked a lot.The handling of these

I just reread this book about five times because I couldn't get enough of the quiet, beautiful heartbreak. I don't remember when I first read it, perhaps in elementary school, but I know I got it from the library many years in a row. I rediscovered it in college and it broke my heart (again), but even then, I was still too mired in childhood and self to notice the richness of the characters' relationships.Reading it now was such a revelation. Here are some things I never picked up on as a young

God knows what it was about this book that had my 11-year old self obsessedbut obsessed I was! I had it permanently borrowed from our school library so attached I was! So this rating is from a younger me, but it is definitely to be read again to be reminded why, although most likely I'm so far from the innocent child I once was that my adult self will miss the meaning! Oh the tragedy of growing up.

4.5 StarsThis was Lois Lowry's first children's book that began her writing career. And for a first book like this, that's a good debut meaning to break anyone who reads it.This is the story of Meg and her older sister Molly. Although Meg had a good hobby of shooting photographs, she envied her sister; by being pretty, having a good style of hair, and having a kind of future coming ahead for her. While Meg felt she didn't have quite the purpose. That is until Molly got sick. Molly may have come