num_pages: 206
description: Canadian Library Association YA Book of the YearIn 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor.Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering whether the accident is to blame for her mother's life as a sad alcoholic who eventually abandons her family and flees to Iceland with another man. When Sally suddenly dies in an accident, Odella, her father and her two younger sisters are almost overwhelmed with grief and confusion, until three people provide help and healing in unexpected ways.
language: English
title: Mistik Lake
titlecomplete: Mistik Lake
genres: Canada, Adult, Family, Young Adult, Romance, Teen, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age
ratings_count: 592
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
publisher: Groundwood Books