| Record Number |
21707 |
| ISBN |
9781785302275 (paperback) |
| Location |
F BOW |
| Author |
Bowman, Akemi Dawn, (author). |
| Title |
Summer bird blue / Akemi Dawn Bowman. |
| Published |
Edinburgh : Ink Road, 2019. |
| ©2018. |
| Collation |
373 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Content types |
still image |
| text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| General Note |
Originally published: 2018. |
| Collection: LGBTIQA+ |
| Summary Note |
Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn't have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of - she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the boys next door, a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn't take anything seriously, and an 80-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago - Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish. Aching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, this story explores big truths about insurmountable grief, unconditional love, and how to forgive even when it feels impossible. |
| Target Audience |
15-18 years old. |
| For teenage readers. -- NoveList Plus. |
| Awards Note |
Rainbow Book List, 2020. https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1331. |
| Subject |
Youth fiction |
| Grief -- Juvenile fiction |
| Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction |
| Aunts -- Juvenile fiction |
| Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction |
| Mothers and daughters Juvenile fiction. |
| Composers -- Juvenile fiction |
| Traffic accidents -- Juvenile fiction |
| Sisters -- Death -- Fiction |
| Young women -- Fiction |
| Bereavement -- Fiction |
| Composition (Music) -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Composition (Music) |
| Interpersonal relations |
| Sisters -- Death |
| Young adult fiction |
| Young women -- Juvenile fiction |
| Internet Site |
Rainbow Book List 2020 |
