Two Moons in August

A 16-year-old girl shows great humor and courage as she struggles through a long, hot summer of loss and love. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

About the author

MARTHA BROOKS is an award-winning novelist, playwright and jazz singer whose books have been published in Spain, Italy, Japan, Denmark, England, Germany and Australia, as well as in Canada and the United States. She is a three-time winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year, as well as the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Mr. Christie¿s Book Award, the Governor General¿s Award, and the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Summary

A year after her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Sidonie still spends sleepless nights playing cards with her cat, Bogie. During the day she lies around and reads under the nose of her nineteen-year-old sister, Roberta, who angrily scrubs floors that are already clean and cooks meals that are inedible. Their father, a doctor, comes home when he is too exhausted to remain at work. Only the jazz piano-playing of Roberta's new boyfriend, Phil, brings some relief to the long hot summer.

Then Kieran, an angry sixteen-year-old stranger, comes to their lakeside community. Sidonie discovers that he isn't easy to ignore, and in the weeks that follow, her growing attraction to him is accompanied by more frequent, powerful memories of her mother.

Product details

• Authors: Martha Brooks, Brooks Martha
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2008
• EAN: 9780888998651
• ISBN: 978-0-88899-865-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 177 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / General, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Interest age: from c 12 years, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science & Nature / General