Bird Lake Moon
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There are ghosts at Bird Lake, and they're haunting Mitch and Spencer. Not the Halloween kind, but ghosts of the past. Memories of how life was beforeβbefore the divorce, before the accident. Can their ghosts bring Mitch and Spencer together, as friends? Or will their secrets keep them apart?
Mitch feels isolated at his grandparentsβ house and canβt help hating his father, who walked out on him and his mom two and a half weeks earlier. Spencerβs family has decided itβs finally time to return to Bird Lake, years after his brother, Matty, drowned there. Both boys arrive at the lake scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start healing.
βSuperbly crafted. A βmust haveβ for every library.βΒ βSchool Library JournalΒ (starred review)
βIn a novel as tender as his acclaimedΒ Oliveβs Ocean, Henkes probes the psyches of two boys facing family conflicts.ββPublishers WeeklyΒ (starred review)
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Kevin Henkes has been praised both as a writer and as an illustrator and is the recipient of the Childrenβs Literature Legacy Award for his lasting contribution to literature for children. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kittenβs First Full Moon; Caldecott Honors for Waiting and Owen; two Newbery Honors, one for Oliveβs Ocean and one for The Year of Billy Miller; and Geisel Honors for Waiting and Penny and Her Marble. His other books include The World and Everything in It, A House, A Parade of Elephants, Chrysanthemum, and the beloved Lillyβs Purple Plastic Purse. Kevin Henkes lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin.
