Book Nook - One Alley Summer

 

One Alley Summer, a middle grade novel in verse, is finally coming out in paperback! First published in May 2024, One Alley Summer has received glowing praise. Perfect for summer reading, the novel will have kids jumping rope while chanting rhymes!

“A highly recommended realistic fiction title that deftly explores classic tween themes of summer, friendship, and coming of age.” —School Library Journal “I love this book so much I want to live in it, with these rope-jumping, skate-boarding, tree-climbing, bottle cap-collecting, poetry-writing, mouse-rescuing, dog-finding, double-daring, friend-making (and sometimes losing), life-loving, joy-filled kids. Ylvisaker has created a place so real and full of life, you’re going to want to live here, too.”—Margi Preus, Newbery Honor winning author winner and winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai Anne Ylvisaker is the author of the picture book IAMASAURUS (Cameron Kids 2022) as well as many award winning books, including five middle grade novels with Candlewick Press, a board book, and nineteen books of non-fiction for young readers. In 2005 Anne was awarded the McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Children’s Literature.