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Bird Lake Moon

Name: Bird Lake Moon
Author: Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes

When two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Mitch feels isolated at his grandparents’ house and can’t help hating his father, who walked out on him and his mom two and a half weeks earlier. Spencer’s family has decided it’s 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.

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Awards & recognition

Booklist Editors’ Choice Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice Book Sense Summer Children’s Pick Washington Post Book World Best Kids’ Books of the Year Charlie May Simon Children’s Book Award Nominee Georgia Children’s Book Award Master List Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Nominee Wisconsin Library Association’s Children’s Book Award

What the critics said

praise from the pages of the reviews

“Henkes knows children and their secrets, and readers will lean close to hear the whispers.”— Booklist (starred review)”

“Superbly crafted. . . . A ‘must have’ for every library.” — School Library Journal (starred review)”

“In a novel as tender as his acclaimed Olive’s Ocean, Henkes probes the psyches of two boys facing family conflicts.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)”