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A Million Miles From Boston (2011)

by Karen Day(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385738994 (ISBN13: 9780385738996)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Wendy Lamb Books

review 1: I found this book to be endeering. Lucy is going to be in 7th grade and is getting ready for changes in life with a new school. She likes things to stay the same and not to change she so is looking forward to Pierson Point for the summer. There she finds everything stays the same there. She has plans she will start a camp for the kids that live there during the summer and she will be drawing in the book she draws in every year. This summer she will find out will not be like those she has had every summer of her life on the point. She will find that her former science partner who by the way is a jerk. will be in her life this summer. She will find that she still mournes the mother who passed away when she was six yearsold, she will find her dad has a new love.This young adu... morelt book was good it took me back to the changes I went through when I was in middle school. It reminded me that life is all about change. Lucy also has a black lab and that took me back to one that I had. I found this book to even be one that adults can find entertaining. I gave it four stars because I sat down and read it all in one days reading. Karen Day is a gifted story teller.
review 2: This book reminds me of something I would have read when I was a kid . . . not that it's out of touch or dated, but just that it's the kind of beautiful, simple story that I would have loved in grade school, that I would have wanted to read again and again. There's no gimmick: no vampires, wizards, or talking dogs. (Not that those are bad things, this is just a different kind of book.) What there is is the well-crafted story of a young girl on the cusp of her teens. This is her last summer before middle school starts, she just got her ears pierced, and her father has started seriously dating someone since her mother died six years before. But Lucy doesn't like change, especially when it occurs at Pierson's Point, where she has spent every summer of her life at her grandparents' beach house. How she deals with the changes that are coming, how her family deals with it, and what she learns this summer are quietly, beautifully amazing. less

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