num_pages: 400
description: Still reeling from a recent trauma sixteen-year-old Dell is relieved when her mom suggests a stay at the family cabin. But the much-needed escape quickly turns into a disaster. The lake and woods are awash in trash left by a previous tenant. And worse Dells mom has invited her boyfriends daughter to stay with them. Confident irreverent Ivy presses all of Dell's buttons--somehow making Dells shame and self-consciousness feel even more acute. Yet Dell is drawn to Ivy in a way she doesn't fully understand. As Dell uncovers secrets in the wreckage of her family's past--secrets hinted at through troubling dreams and strange apparitions--Ivy leads her toward thrilling if confusing revelations about her sexuality and identity.Set during a humid summer in the mid-2000s The Queen of Junk Island simmers with the intensity of a teenage girl navigating the suffocating expectations of everyone around her.
language: English
title: The Queen of Junk Island
publisher: Annick Press