A Summer to Die

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Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly's beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly's illness and death.


This unforgettable classic explores the turbulent emotions of first grief, new friendship, and finding your own way to say goodbye.


  • A Powerful Coming of Age Story: Thirteen-year-old Meg has always lived in her older sister’s shadow. Through the lens of her camera, she begins to find her own identity just as her world is about to change forever.
  • Complex Sister Relationships: Meg’s envy for her beautiful sister Molly is a secret she can barely admit to herself. When illness strikes, she must navigate a tangled web of love, jealousy, and regret.
  • The Bittersweet Loss of a Sibling: A raw and honest look at the process of grieving a sister, capturing the anger, confusion, and deep sadness that comes with an impossible loss.
  • Unlikely Friendships: As her family faces crisis, Meg finds unexpected comfort and wisdom in new friendships with an elderly neighbor and a young couple preparing for a new life, just as she faces an ending.
Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly's beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly's illness and death. This unforgettable classic explores the turbulent emotions of first grief, new friendship, and finding your own way to say goodbye. A Power...

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49 reviews
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This book is absolutely incredible! It was written very well and the best part about it is that I can relate to it. One of my friends on my soccer team has cancer and she is only 13 too. She is doing very well, but as for Molly so far i don't think she is going to make it. I have not finished the book yet but i can already tell it is going to be one of the best books i ever read.
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Evelyn M
July 23, 2014
Mark Lapinski obviously because she misses her and maybe she wanted to express herself. Why would you hate the book because the author wrote about ber sister's death. That's like saying you hate Law and Order: SVU because it's about rape victims.
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Manami Thomas
January 23, 2013
I originally read this book because at school I had to read the first chapter but had a choice to read the whole book and read anther chapter and got hooked on the book VERY INTERESTING And RECOMMEND
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About the author

Lois Lowry is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.

Lois Lowry is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the ...

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