The melancholy of Summer
Call Number
- FICTION ONOM TEEN (OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2023.
Physical Description
312 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 10-12. Feiwel & Friends.
Summary
Summer Uzoma's parents went on the run after they were accused of committing a crime, leaving her behind. She has been alternating stays with her friends' families, and secretly visits her old home. But she's fine: she has her skateboard and her bus pass. She just has to turn eighteen in a few weeks and then she'll truly be free. Then a nosy social worker arranges for Summer to be living with her cousin Olu-- someone she hasn't seen in years: a famous singer in Japan last she heard, and not much older than Summer. Olu has her own drama to deal with-- but with her help, can Summer learn to trust again?
Subjects
- Abandoned children > Juvenile fiction.
- Homeless teenagers > Juvenile fiction.
- Nigerians > Canada > Juvenile fiction.
- Cousins > Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
- Self-acceptance > Juvenile fiction.
- Abandoned children > Fiction.
- Cousins > Fiction.
- Friendship > Fiction.
- Self-acceptance > Fiction.
- Homeless teenagers > Fiction.
- Nigerians > Canada > Fiction.