Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal. 100,000 first printing.
Capturing summertime silence and the even deeper quiet of two boys from fractured families, acclaimed children's author and illustrator Kevin Henkes has created another stunning middle grade novel. Twelve-year-old Mitch is struggling to understand his parents' divorce while fighting boredom at his grandparents' lake house, while at ten, Spencer is on a family trip filled with haunted memories. The two befriend each other, and slowly forge a friendship that helps each of them begin to recover.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: Social Issues / Friendship, Social Issues / Emotions + Feelings, Family / General, General
- Age: 9-12 years
- Publisher: Greenwillow
- Pages: 179
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: May 1, 2008
- Date Published: May 1, 2008
- Author: Kevin Henkes