Summer bird blue
Summer bird blueAkemi Dawn Bowman
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Summer bird blue (2018)

Akemi Dawn Bowman

Others: Leaning positive

Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn t have the answers to everything. But there is one thing she is sure of she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief.

ISBN:
9781481487764
Length:
379 pages

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Reviews2

jennaclarek
Loved it

this book i picked it up at the beginning of the year i read it because there's an ace character in it and i've been meaning to read it for years and years and it was so good

Mixed

the first half you find yourself sort of distant from the main character as she is so completely full of rage the second half allows her to reconcile her rage deal with the things that were followed and maybe start to move on the second half is really where it's strong