Twilight got your tween reading, which is great. But let’s be honest here, it isn’t the best form of literature available out there. And while your tween might not be ready (or willing) to give Shakespeare a try at this point in her life, parents can continue feeding this new-found interest for reading by picking up more books that are not only geared at tweens, but are well written, have an intriguing plot and whose main character is relatable to them.
Tracy Richardson’s Indian Summer is exactly that.
Marcie is a twelve-year old young lady who is facing the prospect of a long, boring summer as she and her brother head out to their grandparents’ lake cottage. But as a development project threatens to limit access to the beautiful shores of Lake Pappakeechee to only a few rich families, Marcie, her older brother Eric and their neighbour, Al, try to rally up the neighbours in a bid to save Lake Pappakeechee.
While they get very little help from a resigned population, there is someone who is trying to help Marcie, if only the latter can figure out what is going on in time to stop construction from starting. Because help is coming from a rather unsettling source: visions that Marcie is having from a time long past, which could hold the key to the one and only way of stopping a century-old forest from being cut down.
Things are all the more complicated that the person leading the development project, Mr. Swyndall, is the father of a new-found friend. Kaitlyn Swyndall is one of popular girls from her middle school; being alone at Lake Pappakeechee with no other companion their age around, Marcie and Kaitlyn develop something of a friendship. Will it survive Marcie’s challenge to Mr. Swyndall’s development project?
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