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This is a great summer story that deals with how you handle change - change in your family, change in the places you know and love, and change in yourself. One of my favorite things about the story was how Lucy takes on real responsibility by organizing a summer camp for the kids at the Point. Her frustrations and successes are very believable, and it's great to kids choosing responsibility and dealing with the consequences in a real way. When the kids aren't enjoying the camp, she has to come t
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Great story about family from Boston who vacations in Maine. Things are a little different this year.
Would be great read aloud.
Makes me think of other Maine books - Touch Blue, Small as an Elephant. With some picture books for background knowledge would work well.
Would be great read aloud.
Makes me think of other Maine books - Touch Blue, Small as an Elephant. With some picture books for background knowledge would work well.
Gentle story, no neglectful parents or kids who are the chosen ones needing to save the world. And the main character does some real growing up. I loved it.
Apr 24, 2011
Angie
marked it as to-read
May 17, 2011
Shawn
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Jul 28, 2011
Joshua Whiting
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Sep 05, 2011
Crystal
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Aug 28, 2012
Liz
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