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  • Forever This Summer (Love Like Sky #2)

Forever This Summer
(Love Like Sky #2)

Publication Date
July 06, 2021
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Forever This Summer (Love Like Sky #2)

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Description

The second book from critically acclaimed author Leslie C. Youngblood, about family, identity, and learning to stand up for what's right.

Georgie has no idea what to expect when she, Mama, and Peaches are plopped down in the middle of small town USA--aka Bogalusa, Louisiana--where Mama grew up and Great Aunt Vie needs constant care.

Georgie wants to help out at the once famous family diner that served celebrities like the Jackson 5 and the Supremes, but everyone is too busy to show her the ropes and Mama is treating her like a baby, not letting her leave her sight. When she finally gets permission to leave on her own, Georgie makes friends with Markie--a foster kid who'd been under Aunt Elvie's care--who has a limb difference and a huge attitude.

Then Markie asks Georgie to help her find her mom, and suddenly summer has a real purpose. But as Georgie and Markie's histories begin to entwine, Georgie becomes more desperate to find the truth. But words spoken cannot be taken back and once Georgie knows the truth, she may even find a way to right past wrongs and help Aunt Vie and Markie out after all.

Publication date
July 06, 2021
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780759555204
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Series
Love Like Sky
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV015020 - Juvenile Fiction | Health & Daily Living | Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV039070 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Homelessness & Poverty
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
JUV013080 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Blended Families
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
African Americans
Family life
Louisiana
Leslie C Youngblood
Leslie C. Youngblood received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A former assistant professor of creative writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, she has lectured at Mississippi State University, UNC-Greensboro, and the University of Ghana at Legon. She's been awarded a host of writing honors, including a 2014 Yaddo's Elizabeth Ames Residency, the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize, a Hurston Wright Fellowship, and the Room of Her Own Foundation's 2009 Orlando Short Story Prize. In 2010 she won the Go On Girl! Book Club Aspiring Writer Award. Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and raised in Rochester, she's fortunate to have a family of natural storytellers and a circle of supportive family and friends. Love Like Sky was her first novel.
Other Books In Series:

Love Like Sky

Forever This Summer (Love Like Sky #2)
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