Books with title Island Summer

Just in time for summer comes the perfect beach read! Humor and romance abound in this fresh, fun take on summer love.Nikki may spend the school year on the New England mainland at the ritzy Richfield Academy (on scholarship), but during the summer, she returns home to the decidedly less-posh Pelican Island. Despite an invite from her rich friend Blair, Nikki has to spend the summer working at her parents' sandwich shop. During one of her deliveries to the mainland, she meets Daniel Babcock, and they begin a whirlwind summer romance. But when Blair invites Nikki to spend the weekend, Nikki sees her walking hand in hand...with Daniel! Can summer love survive?

Fourteen year old Jimmy Smith is dreading the thought of spending the summer on Caroline Island without his best friends. Luckily, his misery is alleviated when he meets a vivacious young girl. As quickly as they become friends, Jimmy finds himself in love for the first time. The idyllic summer is fractured by two crises: the Smiths may lose their house to a wealthy interloper and Jimmy’s dawning realization that his friend is suffering from an eating disorder that affects both her moods and her health. As the summer progresses, Jimmy and his family have to find a way to save their home while trying to help a very sick friend who does not want help.

Fourteen year old Jimmy Smith is dreading the thought of spending the summer on Caroline Island without his best friends. Luckily, his misery is alleviated when he meets a vivacious young girl. As quickly as they become friends, Jimmy finds himself in love for the first time. The idyllic summer is fractured by two crises: the Smiths may lose their house to a wealthy interloper and Jimmy’s dawning realization that his friend is suffering from an eating disorder that affects both her moods and her health. As the summer progresses, Jimmy and his family have to find a way to save their home while trying to help a very sick friend who does not want help.

School is out and it's the perfect time to explore the magic of summer! What is summer? For so many children summer is lemonade and salty air, baseball and ice cream, fireflies and starry nights, and much, much more. Join four friends as they explore the outdoor world of summer and all its sensory pleasures. Phillis and David Gershator's evocative language and Sophie Blackall's imaginative pictures celebrate this fun-filled season.

For over a century, the people of Clam Island, Washington, have enjoyed barbecues and baseball games at Summerland, on the Western tip of the island, where it never rains. The small beings – known as ferishers – who ensure this perfect weather, however, are threatened by an ancient enemy, and need a hero – a baseball star, in fact – to vanquish their foe. Summerland is the story of Ethan Feld, the worst ball player in the history of the game, recruited by a hundred-year-old scout called Ringfinger Brown, himself a Negro League Legend. Accompanied by his determined friend, Jennifer T. Rideout, and guided by a friendly werefox, Ethan struggles to defeat giants, bat-winged goblins, and one of the toughest ballclubs in the realms of magic, to save all the Summerlands, and ultimately the world.

It’s the summer of 1969, the summer of moon-landings and flower children.Twelve-year-old Pepper and her oddball brother Everett are spending it on Shack Island with Grandma. It’s a shock to discover that “shack” is the literal truth. Grandma’s place is tiny, and the island—or islands, for there are three of them—only big enough for a scattering of cabins. That summer Pepper discovers she has a strange and unsettling extrasensory ability. She has mysterious dreams that come out of the blue and seem to foretell the future. What do these creepy dreams mean?Pepper doesn’t know, but she decides to practice her ESP skills to see if she can better at it. One day she hopes to read people’s minds and move a pen just by thinking about it. She also knows she is adopted, but she knows nothing of her real family. As the summer days and starlit nights begin to work their magic, Pepper decides her Shack Island summer will be an excellent time to try to find out who they might be. Along the way she encounters glamorous jet-setters, draft dodgers, runaways and guitar-playing hippies. By the end of the summer, she’ll have some answers... but they might not be the ones she’s looking for.

Ethan Feld is bad at baseball. Hopeless, even. But when his father mysteriously disappears, Ethan is recruited to save him and the world by traveling the baseball-obsessed Summerlands to stop Coyote, the trickster, from unmaking existence. With help from a ragtag group of friends he meets along the way, Ethan must not only find his father and stop Coyote, but also master his position on the field. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has created a distinctly American fantasy experience with baseball at its heart.