Title: The summer I learned to fly
Description: Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
Subjects: Retail Stores, Interpersonal relations, History, Fiction, Family life, Rats as pets, Single-parent families, Families, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Children's fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, California, fiction
Places: California
Time periods: 20th century