SuitabookSurviving summer vacation
Willo Davis Roberts
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This is a holiday mystery built around a family trip, uneasy new neighbours and a possible link between strangers and unexplained money.
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Willo Davis Roberts
This is a holiday mystery built around a family trip, uneasy new neighbours and a possible link between strangers and unexplained money.
Betty G. Birney
A warm, humorous friendship adventure follows Humphrey and Og through camp activities, cabin rivalry and unsettling surprises. It offers a small-animal viewpoint on nervousness, helping friends and adapting to unfamiliar experiences.
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Browse all 1 booksKaty Kelly
Expect a humorous, energetic child’s voice alongside genuine family uncertainty. Lucy tries to manage several summer problems, including a peer conflict and concern about whether her parents will divorce.
This is a gentle beach adventure about a character whose plans repeatedly go wrong, then improve through friendship and a calming activity. Its central interest is recognising strong feelings and responding with compassion.
Catherine Bruton
This is a tender but potentially painful story about a child living alongside a seriously ill sibling. Nature, friendship and imaginative activity offer connection, while the family faces worsening illness and possible bereavement.
Margi McAllister
An animal adventure about friendship, community and a contested development. Its conflict places Drina and her friends against a plan involving the village, landscape and the possible use of her lion as a theme-park attraction.
Keah Brown
A lively summer plan becomes a story about concealed feelings, friendship strain and learning to treat oneself with greater empathy. Disability, race and sexuality are central to Andrea’s life without being presented as obstacles to her belonging.
Bette Greene, Bette Greene
This is a wartime coming-of-age story about a young girl who forms a significant connection with a German prisoner who has escaped. It brings personal empathy, divided loyalties and family pain into a dangerous historical setting.
Summer Waters
This is a magical adventure about responsibility, divided loyalties and protecting creatures whose bay environment is threatened. Family visits and volunteer rivalry put pressure on Antonia as she tries to decide which promises and relationships matter most.
Polly Carlson-Voiles
This is a grief-centred story about a child facing repeated family upheaval, resisting dependence, and encountering an orphaned wolf pup. Nature, animal care and an unfamiliar landscape appear to shape Nika’s emotional experience.
Patricia Gonzalez
This is a child-centred adventure about adapting when a summer is unexpectedly restricted. Paddy’s companionship with Fenway and imaginative journeying appear to provide the story’s main movement, while the broken arm creates the initial change in circumstances.