Meeting Melanie

by Nancy Garden

Book Overview

A dangerous drama unfolds on a remote Maine island Almost-twelve-year-old Allie Ward's summer is not looking especially fun-filled. Seal Island, Maine, is a pretty isolated community, and the only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374349436
• ISBN13: 9780374349431
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Wonderful for tweens

A very good book for girls who are at that stage of starting to hear/notice the differences in (and hardships of) their peers in an emotional way. The eye-opening story is not fairy tale, but is not too harsh for this age group. Great for passing around from friend to friend. My daughter donated a copy to her 5th grade library!

A moving story of conflict and discovery

Allie isn't looking forward to her summer: her isolated Maine community offers few friends and her father has injured his back, so the family has to pitch in and start a new business to help out. When she meets a summer girl whose family is staying at an elegant home they inherited, she forms an uncertain friendship with a girl who has everything monetarily, but lacks family support. Their friendship will change both their worlds in this moving story of conflict and discovery.