Bird Lake Moon
Author(s): Kevin Henkes

Told in alternating voices, this smart and engaging middle grade novel from the beloved Kevin Henkes is the story of two boys coming together in friendship as they struggle with family conflicts and tragedy.

There are ghosts at Bird Lake, and they’re haunting Mitch and Spencer. Not the Halloween kind, but ghosts of the past. Memories of how life was beforebefore the divorce, before the accident. Can their ghosts bring Mitch and Spencer together, as friends? Or will their secrets keep them apart?

Mitch feels isolated at his grandparents house and cant help hating his father, who walked out on him and his mom two and a half weeks earlier. Spencers family has decided its finally time to return to Bird Lake, years after his brother, Matty, drowned there. Both boys arrive at the lake scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start healing.

Superbly crafted. A must have for every library.School Library Journal(starred review)

In a novel as tender as his acclaimedOlives Ocean, Henkes probes the psyches of two boys facing family conflicts.Publishers Weekly(starred review)

Review(s):
In a novel as tender as his acclaimed Olives Ocean, Henkes probes the psyches of two boys facing family conflict.
Henkes knows children and their secrets, and readers will lean close to hear the whispers.
Superbly crafted . . . with humor and just the right amount of tension to make this a significant and highly readable book.
This quiet, beautifully told story deals delicately but realistically with the boys emotions.
Henkes deftly locates Mitchs pain and confusion, delivering a novel thats quiet, nuanced, and redemptive.
Unpretentious, spare, and timeless in the way of summers by the lake.

ALA Booklist Editors Choice, New York Public Library’s One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing, Sunshine State Young Readers Award nominee (Florida), Cooperative Childrens Book Center Choice

ISBN:9780061470769