Summer
Mark Crilley
- Reading
- As you read, notice what Miki learns about the delivering role and how her own feelings affect her choices; pause to compare her perspective with the other characters’.
- Themes
- Feelings and delivering: As Miki learns about Hiro’s delivering job, she becomes more emotionally involved in relationships around him and her friend Yumi. The plot presents emotional involvement as complicating Miki’s role in delivering.
- Worth knowing
- Dating and romantic jealousy are part of the plot: Miki wonders whether she can keep her relationship with Hiro as Reika visits him, while other school relationships shift.