num_pages: 142
description: Sara's fourteenth summer was turning out to be the most confusing time in her life. Up until then things had flowed smoothly, like gliding swans on the lake. Now she wanted to fly away from everything - her beautiful older sister, her bossy Aunt Willie, her remote father, and, most of all, from herself.And then there was her younger brother, Charlie. Sara loved him in a way she didn't understand until the night he disappeared, when she began to realize what it means to care more about someone else than you could care about yourself.
language: English
title: The Summer of the Swans
titlecomplete: The Summer of the Swans
genres: Fiction, Family, Coming Of Age, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Classics, Childrens, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 10552
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Newbery Medal
publisher: Puffin Books