Name: The Summer I Learned to Fly
ISBN: 9780385739542

Dana Reinhardt

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker, Nick. But when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew turns to her father's copy of "The Book of Lists," her pet rat, and Emmett--a boy on a quest--to help her cope.

The Summer I Learned to Fly

Jess

Read this review on my blog! --&gt; <a href="http://www.gonewiththewords.com/2012/01/review-summer-i-learned-to-fly-by-dana.html" rel="nofollow noopener">The Summer I Learned to Fly by Dana Reinhardt</a> What I liked about this story was the way it transported me to summer time as a 13 year old. It made me reminisce about bike rides around the neighborhood, with the sun shining on my face, trips to the local public pool and to the park...the feeling of freedom and innocence all rolled into this one book. Drew was such a likable, sweet character. And this is the first summer of her life where she feels she’s missing out on life. So with the help of her new stranger friend, Emmett, she begins a life outside her family and their Cheese Shop. But Emmett is not exactly an open book when it comes to his life. He just appears suddenly when he wants and without warning, and she doesn’t really know any details about him, aside from the fact that he’s nice to her and knows a lot about rats. She does know somehow that she can trust him though. And because of this, when he finally spills his guts, they embark on a scary adventure together. I say scary because I wouldn’t have had the guts at that age to do what they did. I also really liked the side characters in this story a lot, especially Swoozie and Nick, who loved Drew just because she was Drew. Overall this was a fast, sweet, engaging story. The ending wasn’t your typical HEA, but it was real, which is most important. I really loved how engaging and honest Dana Reinhardt’s writing was and I’m definitely going to look into getting her other books.

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.

Milana Marie Waller

(2.5)This book wasn’t baaaad it’s just that nothing really seemed to happen. And all the things that did happen didn’t make that much sense of conclude to anything. I dunno, all I can say is that I didn’t hate this book, but it didn’t do much for me. Also I wouldn’t recommend it to my friends.

The Summer I Learned to Fly

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