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Walker, Dan

Secondhand Summer

182 pp. | Alaska | June, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-943328-79-6 $23.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-943328-42-0 $12.99
(4) YA After his father's death, Sam's homesteader family relocates from rural Alaska to Anchorage in 1965. Left largely to his own devices in this vastly different environment, the fourteen-year-old falls into questionable company and is lured into recklessness that nearly leads to disaster. Walker's folksy, poetic writing can be superb ("kids I'd been babies with, like we were hairs on the same head") but not always kidlike.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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