Otheguy Emma - Silver Meadows Summer - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " Beautiful and wise this is a gem of a book." - - Adam Gidwitz Newbery Honor - winning author of The Inquisitor's Tale Just right for fans of Pam Mu oz Ryan this story of moving out and moving on is a touching portrayal of the experience of leaving one's home country and making new friends - - sometimes where least expected. Eleven - year - old Carolina's summer - - and life as she knows it - - is upended when Papi loses his job and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her T a Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows Camp where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. Just as Carolina worries she'll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela's shadow she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer a fellow artist. Carolina gets another welcome surprise when she stumbles upon a long - abandoned cottage in the woods near the campsite and immediately sees its potential as a creative haven for making art. There with Jennifer Carolina begins to reclaim the parts of the life she loved in Puerto Rico and forgets about how her relationship with Mami has changed and how distant Papi has become. But when the future of Silver Meadows and the cottage is thrown into jeopardy Carolina and - - to everyone's surprise - - Gabriela come up with a plan to save them. Will it work?
Title: Silver Meadows Summer
Author(s): Otheguy Emma
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9781524773250
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 5/19/2020
Category: Children’S & Teenage Fiction & True Stories