num_pages: 288
description: A magic passed down through generations . . . Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience for the tingle of magic in her fingersmagic that has been passed down through every woman in her family. Her twin sister Mary already shows an ability to defy gravity. But with their eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer Georgina fears her gift will never come.An island where strange things happen . . . No one on the island of By-the-Sea would ever call the Fernwehs what they really are but if you need the odd bit of helpsay a sleeping aid concocted by moonlightthey are the ones to ask.No one questions the weather as moody and erratic as a summer storm.No one questions the (allegedly) three-hundred-year-old bird who comes to roost on the island every year.A summer that will become legend . . . When tragedy strikes what made the Fernweh women special suddenly casts them in suspicion. Over the course of her last summer on the islanda summer of storms of love of saltGeorgina will learn the truth about magic in all its many forms.
language: None
title: Summer of Salt
publisher: HarperTeen