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Summer Bird Blue / Akemi Dawn Bowman.
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish. -- adapted from jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781481487757 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1481487752 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 373 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon Pulse, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | 12 up. |
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| Subject: | Sisters > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Death > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Composers > Fiction. Aunts > Fiction. Hawaii > Fiction. Sisters > Death > Fiction. Racially mixed people > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Summary:
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish. -- adapted from jacket.