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Summerlost parent’s guide: what’s inside
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A note for parents
Summerlost is a thoughtful middle-grade novel that centers on grief and healing following the deaths of a child's father and younger brother in a traffic accident. The book handles these mature themes with sensitivity and age-appropriateness, using theater and friendship as vehicles for Cedar's emotional journey. The story emphasizes resilience, connection, and finding meaning after loss, making it suitable for readers who have experienced grief or are learning to understand it.
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"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief."-- "Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief."--
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- Actresses
- Gifts
- Social Issues
- Theater
- Family
- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Grief
- Grief in children
- General (see also headings under Social Issues)
- Traffic accident victims
- Children and death
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ISBN 9780399187193