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Trout Summer
Missing their wilderness roots when their mother moves them to a busy suburb, Shana and Cody convince their mother that they can handle the responsibilities of staying in a woodland cabin unsupervised, with troublesome results. Reprint.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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March 11, 2024
Ugh... This... Not good.
My specimen came from a school. Probably the district clearing out it's library. I feel bad for the students who where assigned this book.
A good 85% of the book is just the main character going on and on, and on, and on, and just ON about everything except anything interesting!
It's all just exposition. No, I do not CARE about %s unless it pertains to the story. If I'm in a lore nerd mood, I'll just pop over to AO3 and write for my Rats of NIMH fanfiction!
It's not like the other 15% of the book is much better either. For some the MC and her immediate family has beef with the dad for... Going to Europe? He send letters to them and what not. I don't know, it could of been an interesting sub plot, but it's not done in a compelling enough way for me to care.
Somehow the MC and her brother convinces their mom to temporarily move into a structurally unstable, damp, doesn't keep the weather out, pneumonia's choice "filled to the brim with mold", and infested with small mammals cabin for the summer. All of which is on a US natural reserve.
Also, the MC and her brother are in their early teens during the mid 80's New England (Page 23 the NES is mentioned) yet they use words and slanf like "supper" and "polished off" to describe eating. Now, I'm no linguist (I'm a computer programmer by heart) but I'm pretty certain teenagers during the mid 80's didn't say stuff like that.
The one ranger the kids bump into is big into his power trips, yet the most he really does is brandish his gun at them (I think it's a shotgun?). But despite being a power hungry loser (that would fit in perfectly with our police departments lmao) he doesn't... Well, arrest them for trespassing...
And the kids won't tell their mom about this. Like, at all. Or if they did, I haven't read to that point yet.
Yeah... I can't be bothered to finish this book.
Now, onto a slightly more positive note.
-There are a couple book titles thrown in. However, there are no author or publisher names, so I can't fully verify if these books are real, even if a quick search reveals books with the same name.
-The MC mentions the "Leanna River", stating that it's small, less then 70 feet across. Width is the only reference we have. No flow rate, no stage, nothing. There IS a river named "Leanna", but it isn't even in North America.
-"Lagland" brings up references to "Langland". The in universe location the MC is at is probably fictional.
My specimen came from a school. Probably the district clearing out it's library. I feel bad for the students who where assigned this book.
A good 85% of the book is just the main character going on and on, and on, and on, and just ON about everything except anything interesting!
It's all just exposition. No, I do not CARE about %s unless it pertains to the story. If I'm in a lore nerd mood, I'll just pop over to AO3 and write for my Rats of NIMH fanfiction!
It's not like the other 15% of the book is much better either. For some the MC and her immediate family has beef with the dad for... Going to Europe? He send letters to them and what not. I don't know, it could of been an interesting sub plot, but it's not done in a compelling enough way for me to care.
Somehow the MC and her brother convinces their mom to temporarily move into a structurally unstable, damp, doesn't keep the weather out, pneumonia's choice "filled to the brim with mold", and infested with small mammals cabin for the summer. All of which is on a US natural reserve.
Also, the MC and her brother are in their early teens during the mid 80's New England (Page 23 the NES is mentioned) yet they use words and slanf like "supper" and "polished off" to describe eating. Now, I'm no linguist (I'm a computer programmer by heart) but I'm pretty certain teenagers during the mid 80's didn't say stuff like that.
The one ranger the kids bump into is big into his power trips, yet the most he really does is brandish his gun at them (I think it's a shotgun?). But despite being a power hungry loser (that would fit in perfectly with our police departments lmao) he doesn't... Well, arrest them for trespassing...
And the kids won't tell their mom about this. Like, at all. Or if they did, I haven't read to that point yet.
Yeah... I can't be bothered to finish this book.
Now, onto a slightly more positive note.
-There are a couple book titles thrown in. However, there are no author or publisher names, so I can't fully verify if these books are real, even if a quick search reveals books with the same name.
-The MC mentions the "Leanna River", stating that it's small, less then 70 feet across. Width is the only reference we have. No flow rate, no stage, nothing. There IS a river named "Leanna", but it isn't even in North America.
-"Lagland" brings up references to "Langland". The in universe location the MC is at is probably fictional.
September 25, 2017
Dad deserts his wife and two kids. The whole town is gossiping. So the wife decides to uproot her kids and transfer to another state just before school is out. Of course, the kids have a very hard time adjusting and talk her into letting them live in a rundown shack in the woods, with no running water or electricity, for the summer. So she drives the hour to town every day to her job and leaves the kids (ages 12 and 13) alone to fend for themselves. I found parts of this book that were unbelievable, but it did teach that you have to learn to deal with what life throws at you and move on.
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November 18, 2019A great read! The relationships between siblings, parents, neighbors is wonderfully described. I enjoyed the realistic tension among divorcing parents and their children, and even among the children. It wasn't "prettied up" in a way that glamorized. The author created an adventurous summer that seemed plausible and yet kept me interested in what would come next. As a mom of boys, even though the main character is a girl, I would recommend this book to any male reader who is looking for adventure and outdoor reading material.
July 5, 2023
Quick easy read. Young adult.
October 17, 2016
It has been five years since I read this novel. As preparation for my trip with Habitat to Vietnam, I was reading everything I could find by Jane Leslie Conly. She was my roommate on the trip and I figured it wouldn't hurt to read her books before meeting her. That turned out to be true.
Conly was a good roommate and an excellent writer. I am afraid that her type of young adult novels have gone out of fashion - they aren't dystopian or fantasy. Her books are good, interesting stories about how people deal with change in their lives.
I am glad I got to know Conly and that I read her stories. I hope she is doing well wherever she is.
Conly was a good roommate and an excellent writer. I am afraid that her type of young adult novels have gone out of fashion - they aren't dystopian or fantasy. Her books are good, interesting stories about how people deal with change in their lives.
I am glad I got to know Conly and that I read her stories. I hope she is doing well wherever she is.
January 7, 2014
For school: family broken up when dad leaves, they move, miss the river, given a cabin to use in summer, fix it up, learn about this river. Run into a ranger, crazy, mean, teaches them to canoe, more about the area. He is very sick. Adventure learning the rapids and flumes .
May 20, 2009
Very suspensful, great!!!
July 17, 2013
Absolute favorite book growing up.
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