Shadowed Summer Excerpts
I like to browse books before I buy them, and I bet you do too. So I invite you to sample
Shadowed Summer for free. And to make it easy, you can choose between a plain text excerpt from Chapter one
here, or read the entire first chapter and part of the second chapter with the high-resolution
digital excerpt here.Plain text loads faster, but digital gives you a bigger taste. It's entirely up to you!
Praise for
Shadowed Summer
"Highly atmospheric, with pulse-pounding suspense and an elegiac ending."
Booklist
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"Mitchell packs a lot into this novel; on the periphery of the story are hints... that give complexity to the secondary characters living in this small town."
School Library Journal
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"Good ghost stories are, like ghosts, a little thin on the ground in these times, and readers will be pleased to find this atmospheric reaffirmation of the power of a good haunting."
Recommended, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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"This splendid novel will stay with readers for a long time."
JLG Monthly
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"Teen readers will appreciate the suspenseful plot and the tragic story."
-Kirkus Reviews