Summerlost
(Sprache: Englisch)
After the accident that killed Cedar's father and autistic younger brother, Cedar and what's left of her family go to her mother's hometown for the summer. When she makes a new friend and gets a job working at the Summerlost festival, she finds herself...
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After the accident that killed Cedar's father and autistic younger brother, Cedar and what's left of her family go to her mother's hometown for the summer. When she makes a new friend and gets a job working at the Summerlost festival, she finds herself surrounded by mystery. Infused with emotion, this touching novel shows the strength of family and personal resilience in the face of tragedy.
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The first middle grade novel from internationally bestselling author Ally Condie comes to paperback.It's the first real summer since the accident that killed Cedar's father and younger brother, Ben. Cedar and what s left of her family are returning to the town of Iron Creek for the summer. They re just settling into their new house when a boy named Leo, dressed in costume, rides by on his bike. Intrigued, Cedar follows him to the renowned Summerlost theatre festival. Soon, she not only has a new friend in Leo and a job working concessions at the festival, she finds herself surrounded by mystery. The mystery of the tragic, too-short life of the Hollywood actress who haunts the halls of Summerlost. And the mystery of the strange gifts that keep appearing for Cedar.
Infused with emotion and rich with understanding, Summerlost is the touching new novel from Ally Condie, the international bestselling author of the Matched series that highlights the strength of family and personal resilience in the face of tragedy. Great for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and The Thing About Jellyfish.
Kids are awesome. And they are diverse. There are children with different abilities and backgrounds and experiences, and every one of them deserves to find themselves in children's literature and to know that they matter. Ally Condie, on Summerlost
Funny, sad, sweet, and heartwarming. Parents.com, Special Needs Now blog
"Condie is at her best . . . grabbing readers interest from the first page." Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A nuanced portrait of grief deeply grounded in the middle-school mind-set." Booklist
"Honest, lovely, and sad." Kirkus Reviews
"Thoughtful, poetic chapter endings guide readers new to psychological depth toward meaningful connections between plot events and thematic reflections." BCCB, starred review
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Act One1.
Our new house had a blue door. The rest of the house was painted white and shingled gray.
Isn t it beautiful? my mother asked.
She climbed out of the car first and then my younger brother, Miles, and then me.
Don t you think this is the perfect place to end the summer? Mom wanted to know.
We were spending the rest of the summer in Iron Creek, a small town in a high desert, the kind with pine trees and snow in the winter. It got hot in the day and cold at night. When a thunderstorm, all black and gray and blue, did come rolling in, you could see it a mile away.
I knew that stars would come out and rain would fall and that the days would be hot and long. I knew I d make sandwiches for Miles and wash dishes with my mom. I knew I would do all of that and summer would be the same and never the same.
Last summer we had a dad and a brother and then they were gone.
We did not see it coming.
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One of the things Miles and I whisper-worried about at night was that our mom could fall in love again.
It didn t seem like it would happen because she d loved my father so much, but we had learned from the accident that anything could happen. Anything bad, anyway.
Mom didn t end up falling in love with a person, but she did fall in love with a house. We were in Iron Creek in June, visiting our grandparents my mom s parents when she saw the for sale sign while she was out for a drive. She came home and whispered to Gram and Papa, and then they went with her to see the house while Miles and I stayed with our uncle Nick and his wife. Two weeks later, Mom used some of the money from when my dad died, the life insurance money, to buy the house. Since she s a teacher and didn t have to go back to work until the end of August, she decided we would spend the rest of the summer in Iron Creek and all the summers after that. She planned to rent out the house to college students during the school year. We weren t really rich
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enough to have two houses.
It will be good for us to be around family more, she said. Next summer we can stay for the whole time.
We didn t fight her about it. We liked our grandparents. We liked our uncle and our aunt. They had known our dad and our brother Ben. They had some of the same memories we did. Sometimes they even brought things up, like, Remember when your dad went out in the kayak at Aspen Lake and he flipped over and we had to save him in our paddleboat? and we would all start laughing because we had the same picture in our minds, my dad with his sunglasses dangling from one ear and his hair all wet. And they knew that Ben s favorite kind of ice cream wasn t ice cream at all, it was rainbow sherbet, and he always ate green first, and so when I saw it in my grandma s freezer once and I started crying they didn t even ask why and I think I saw my uncle Nick, my mom s brother, crying too.
Well, Mom said, let s go inside and choose rooms before we start unpacking.
Me first! said Miles.
They went in the house and I sat down on the steps.
The wind came through the trees, which were very old and very tall. I heard an ice-cream truck a few streets over, and kids playing in other yards.
And then a boy rode past on a bike. The boy wore old clothes. Not worn-out old, old-fashioned. He was dressed like a peasant. He had on a ruffly blouse and pants that ended right under his knees and a hat with a feather and he was my age. He didn t glance over at me. He looked happy.
Sad, I thought. That s so sad. He s weird and he doesn t even know it.
Actually, it s better not to kn
It will be good for us to be around family more, she said. Next summer we can stay for the whole time.
We didn t fight her about it. We liked our grandparents. We liked our uncle and our aunt. They had known our dad and our brother Ben. They had some of the same memories we did. Sometimes they even brought things up, like, Remember when your dad went out in the kayak at Aspen Lake and he flipped over and we had to save him in our paddleboat? and we would all start laughing because we had the same picture in our minds, my dad with his sunglasses dangling from one ear and his hair all wet. And they knew that Ben s favorite kind of ice cream wasn t ice cream at all, it was rainbow sherbet, and he always ate green first, and so when I saw it in my grandma s freezer once and I started crying they didn t even ask why and I think I saw my uncle Nick, my mom s brother, crying too.
Well, Mom said, let s go inside and choose rooms before we start unpacking.
Me first! said Miles.
They went in the house and I sat down on the steps.
The wind came through the trees, which were very old and very tall. I heard an ice-cream truck a few streets over, and kids playing in other yards.
And then a boy rode past on a bike. The boy wore old clothes. Not worn-out old, old-fashioned. He was dressed like a peasant. He had on a ruffly blouse and pants that ended right under his knees and a hat with a feather and he was my age. He didn t glance over at me. He looked happy.
Sad, I thought. That s so sad. He s weird and he doesn t even know it.
Actually, it s better not to kn
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Autoren-Porträt von Ally Condie
Ally Condie lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren drei Söhnen in Salt Lake City, USA. Nach ihrem Studium unterrichtete sie mehrere Jahre lang Englische Literatur in New York, bevor sie sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ally Condie
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 10 Jahre
- 2017, 272 Seiten, Maße: 12,6 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0399187219
- ISBN-13: 9780399187216
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Condie is at her best . . . grabbing readers interest from the first page." Publishers Weekly, starred review "A nuanced portrait of grief deeply grounded in the middle-school mind-set." Booklist
"Honest, lovely, and sad." Kirkus Reviews
"Thoughtful, poetic chapter endings guide readers new to psychological depth toward meaningful connections between plot events and thematic reflections." BCCB, starred review
Praise for Ally Condie s Atlantia:
Utterly captivating. A heroine unlike any I d met before, a setting I d never glimpsed, a story I d never imagined. Atlantia is fresh, wild, and engrossing. I love Ally Condie. Shannon Hale, award-winning, bestselling author of Austenland and Dangerous
A gorgeous, crumbling underwater world, a murder mystery, a sweet romance, a sinister plot, long-protected secrets they re all here! But what made us love this new stand-alone from talented Ally Condie? Rio. She s a strong, brave, self-sacrificing heroine who never gives up. Justine Magazine
Condie brings tremendous depth to her world-building, finding terrific details in a culture created both to help people survive, and to perhaps keep them under control. Salt Lake City Weekly
"A fast-paced fantasy adventure tale in a richly drawn dystopian future . . . this is a title that s sure to be immensely popular with teens." School Library Journal
Each mystery leads into another, and Condie keeps readers guessing to the end. Shelf Awareness
Praise for the International bestelling Matched trilogy:
"This futuristic fable of love and free will asks: Can there be freedom without choice? The tale of Cassia's journey from acceptance to rebellion will draw you in and leave you wanting more." Cassandra Clare, New York Times-bestselling author of The Infernal Devices and The Mortal
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Instruments series
"A superb dystopian romance." The Wall Street Journal
"The hottest YA title to hit bookstores since The Hunger Games." Entertainment Weekly
"A fierce, unforgettable page-turner." Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Condie's enthralling and twisty dystopian plot is well served by her intriguing characters and fine writing. . . . Cassia's metamorphosis is gripping and satisfying." Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Condie s prose is immediate and unadorned, with sudden pings of lush lyricism [and] reveals seeming to arrive on almost every page." Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Distinct . . . authentic . . . poetic." School Library Journal
"Love triangle + struggle against the powers that be = perfect escape." MTV.com
"A superb dystopian romance." The Wall Street Journal
"The hottest YA title to hit bookstores since The Hunger Games." Entertainment Weekly
"A fierce, unforgettable page-turner." Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Condie's enthralling and twisty dystopian plot is well served by her intriguing characters and fine writing. . . . Cassia's metamorphosis is gripping and satisfying." Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Condie s prose is immediate and unadorned, with sudden pings of lush lyricism [and] reveals seeming to arrive on almost every page." Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Distinct . . . authentic . . . poetic." School Library Journal
"Love triangle + struggle against the powers that be = perfect escape." MTV.com
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