Awards/Honors
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
Annotation: Bird Lake Moon
chronicles the new, summer friendship of Mitch and Spencer. Shared sorrow and
secrets threaten to pull them apart but instead bind them together. They share
the revelation of what it means to be a friend.
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Bird Lake Moon
By Kevin Henkes
Mitch and Spencer are visiting Bird Lake for very different reasons. Mitch should be enjoying a summer at his grandparents’ lake house. Instead he is nagged by the fact that he and his mother are only escaping the fact that his father has left them. Divorce is a terrifying word and Mitch is busy thinking of ways to fix or escape the situation. Spencer’s family is returning to their vacation home in an effort to heal after his brother’s tragic death at the lake years earlier. Neither boy shares their sorrows and instead try to enjoy their time at Bird Lake. An investigation into a haunted lake house and some major lies threatens to destroy their fragile friendship. Instead the boys grow stronger together and cherish the one another; the friend they made under the Bird Lake Moon.
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Praise for Bird Lake Moon!
“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
“[A] quiet, beautifully told story.” KLIATT starred review
Arielle's Recommendation: 3rd-5th graders that enjoy realistic fiction.
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