num_pages: 128
description: Wanting to earn a ten speed bicycle, twelve-year old Ellen reluctantly agrees to spend a summer as a companion to seventy-seven-year-old Lilith Adams. A powerful friendship grows between these two intriguing characters, and both gain a deeper understanding of old age, loneliness, insecurity, and death.
language: English
title: The Lilith Summer
titlecomplete: The Lilith Summer
genres: Childrens
ratings_count: 41
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY