The mending summer - Ali Standish

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• Perfect for fans of Orphan Island and Wishtree , The Mending Summer is the next stunning middle grade novel from Ali Standish--author of the Carnegie Medal nominee The Ethan I Was Before and August Isle, Bad Bella, and How to Disappear Completely-about a girl who is struggling to deal with her father's alcoholism when she discovers an enchanted lake... Some summers are meant to break your heart.
• Others to mend it.
• Every once in a while, a summer rolls around that does both.
• For Georgia, this summer is shaping up to be a big disappointment.
• Mama is busy studying for her biology degree.
• Daddy is working nights, and often the man who comes home isn't Daddy.
• He's a man who looks like Daddy, but walks a little wobbly.
• Who sounds like Daddy, but sings a little too loud.
• Georgia calls him the Shadow Man.
• So now, instead of riding horses with her friends at camp, Georgia is sent off to the country to stay with her mysterious great-aunt for the summer to avoid her parents' fighting.