Bird Lake Moon

Description

Mitch doesn't initially mean to scare the family that arrives at the empty cottage next to his grandparents'. Or lie to them. And so when Mitch becomes friends with the family's son, Spencer, he wishes he could take it back. All of it. A story about friendship and family, and that growing-up moment when you stop telling everything and start holding some things in, from the acclaimed Kevin Henkes, who is, as the New York Times proclaims, "a master of the middle grade novel." Awards: Washington Post Book World Best Kids' Books of the Year Book Sense Summer 2008 Pick Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book

Kevin Henkes is the author and illustrator of more than fifty critically acclaimed and award-winning picture books, beginning readers, and novels. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon in 2005, and Waiting won a Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor in 2016. Kevin Henkes is also the creator of a number of picture books featuring his mouse characters, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Lilly's Big Day and Wemberly Worried, the Caldecott Honor Book Owen, and the beloved Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. His most recent mouse character, Penny, was introduced in Penny and Her Song; her story continued in Penny and Her Doll and Penny and Her Marble (a Geisel Honor Book). Bruce Handy, in a New York Times Book Review piece about A Good Day, wrote, "It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius." Kevin Henkes received two Newbery Honors for novels-one for The Year of Billy Miller, and the other for Olive's Ocean. Also among his fiction for older readers are the novels Junonia, Bird Lake Moon, The Birthday Room, and Sun & Spoon. Kevin Henkes has been published by Greenwillow Books since the release of his first book, All Alone, in 1981. His fiftieth book, the picture book Egg, was published in January 2017. Most recently, he is the author of In the Middle of Fall, Winter Is Here, Summer Song, A Parade of Elephants, Sweeping Up the Heart, and Penny and Her Sled. He lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. www.kevinhenkes.com.

"In a novel as tender as his acclaimed Olive's Ocean, Henkes probes the psyches of two boys facing family conflict." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Henkes knows children and their secrets, and readers will lean close to hear the whispers." - ALA Booklist (starred review) "Superbly crafted . . . with humor and just the right amount of tension to make this a significant and highly readable book." - School Library Journal (starred review) "This quiet, beautifully told story deals delicately but realistically with the boys' emotions." - Kliatt (starred review) "Henkes deftly locates Mitch's pain and confusion, delivering a novel that's quiet, nuanced, and redemptive." - Kirkus Reviews "Unpretentious, spare, and timeless in the way of summers by the lake." - The Horn Book