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Hermes, Patricia

Summer Secrets

141 pp. | Cavendish | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-7614-5074-2 $$15.95
(3) 4-6 Missy's life seems out of her control: her mother is declining due to mental illness, and Missy can't go swimming with her friends because of their skin color. Hermes's atmospheric novel, set in 1940s Mississippi, is suffused with the sadness of a child growing up in a time when racism and mental illness were not talked about. This sensitive novel's ending is especially satisfying.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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