num_pages: 288
description: This debut novelabout taking risks and facing danger about love and art and about growing up and coming outwill make its way straight into your heart.Fig a sixth grader wants more than anything to see the world as her father does. The once-renowned pianist who hasnt composed a song in years and has unpredictable good and bad days is something of a mystery to Fig. Though shes a science and math nerd she tries taking an art class just to be closer to him to experience life the way an artist does. But then Figs dad shows up at school disoriented and desperately searching for Fig. Not only has the class not brought Fig closer to understanding him it has brought social services to their door.Diving into books about Van Gogh to understand the madness of artists calling on her best friend for advice and turning to a new neighbor for support Fig continues to try everything she can think of to understand her father to save him from himself and to find space in her life to discover who she is even as the walls are falling down around her.Nicole Mellebys Hurricane Season is a stunning novel about a girl struggling to be a kid as pressing adult concerns weigh on her. Its also about taking risks and facing danger about love and art and about coming of age and coming out. And more than anything else it is a story of the healing power of loveand the limits of that power.
language: English
title: Hurricane Season
publisher: Algonquin Young Readers