Summer of Fire

summer of fire

Del’s parents have exiled her to Hamburg, Germany, to spend the summer with her much older sister, Cassandra. Separated from her friends, having to cope with a sister who is her polar opposite, Del struggles to figure how to fit – in her foreign surroundings, in her family, in her own life. When Cassandra’s landlord asks Del to read the translated diary of Garda, a girl from World War Two, Del meets someone in those pages who might have it tougher than she does.

Published by Coteau Books, 2009.

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Karen Bass is the multi-award-winning author of a number of novels for young adult readers. Her forthcoming novel, Blood Donor, which will be released in August 2021, was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Graffiti Knight won the CLA Young Adult Book Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, the R. Ross Annett Award, and the CAA Exporting Alberta Award, among other honours. Uncertain Soldier won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and was a finalist for the OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award. Karen lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she moved from northwest Alberta. There she was a public library manager for sixteen years before turning to full-time writing.