Name: Summer Bird Blue - Hardcover
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SKU: 9781481487757
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ISBN: 9781481487757

Summer Bird Blue - Hardcover

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by Akemi Dawn Bowman (Author)

"A lyrical novel about grief, love, and finding oneself in the wake of a tragic loss." --Bustle
"Gorgeous prose and heartbreaking storytelling." --Paste Magazine
"Grabs your heart and won't let go." --Book Riot

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

Three starred reviews for this stunning novel about a mixed-race teen who struggles to find her way back to her love of music in the wake of her sister's death, from the author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Starfish.

Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn't have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of--she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.

Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the "boys next door"--a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn't take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago--Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish.

Aching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, Summer Bird Blue explores big truths about insurmountable grief, unconditional love, and how to forgive even when it feels impossible.

Author Biography

Akemi Dawn Bowman is a critically acclaimed author who writes across genres. Her novels include William C. Morris Award Finalist Starfish, Locus Award Finalist The Infinity Courts series, Summer Bird Blue, Harley in the Sky, Generation Misfits, and Where the Lost Ones Go. She has written short fiction for Star Wars and Magic: The Gathering and has contributed to several anthologies. She currently lives in Scotland with her family. Visit Akemi online at AkemiDawnBowman.com, or on Instagram @AkemiDawnBowman.

Number of Pages: 384

Dimensions: 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN

Publication Date: September 11, 2018

Accelerated Reader:

Quiz Name: Summer Bird Blue

Interest Level: Upper Middle Grades, 6 and up

Reading Level: 4.6

Point Value: 12

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