(((  Summer Reads 2007)))

Summer is here! It's the perfect time to grab a book, hop on a plane, go to the beach, sit on your porch or just lay on your couch and catch up to some great fiction. Each of these works explores the theme of summer from different places in the world.

(Click on the book cover or title to link to library holdings information.)

The Lake, the River, and the Other Lake
By Steve Amick

Experience summer through the eyes of locals and tourists in the town of Weneshkeen on Michigan's Gold Coast.
 

Mango Season
By Amulya Malladi

Priya returns home to India in the height of summer to visit the family she cannot tell about her non-Indian fiancé back in California.


Goodbye Tsugumi
By Banana Yoshimoto

Maria returns from Tokyo to the Japanese seaside hotel run by her aunt to spend one last summer with her beautiful, yet sickly and very mischievous, cousin Tsugumi.