Memories of Summer

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Summary: The story of love and fear!
Review: "Memories of Summer" by Ruth White is a story about two young girls that had to move from their hometown in Virginia to a big industrial city in flint, Michigan. Along the way the girls have to find a way to fit in and adjust to the move. Summer happens to find herself losing control and not wanting to do the things she used to love.
After a few days in their new town Summer starts talking to imaginary people and having frightening episodes of paranoia. She drops out of school and devotes all of her time to sitting around at home and watching her life slip away from her. After many long days at home she slips into schizophrenia and her sister Lyric has to try and take care of her.
Summer continuously gets worse, leaving her family no choice but to try and get her some professional help. They take her to the doctor and are told they need to put Summer in a facility where the doctors could focus entirely on her. Lyric and her father didn't like that choice, so they made sacrifices in order to stay home and help Summer get well. Things got out of control and they both felt like they couldn't handle her any longer. They fought through long periods of trouble and ......
Read this exciting, fun filled book to see what happens and how everything turns out. This book will be sure to keep you on your toes and at the edge of your seat. You won't ever want to put the book down. Be sure to read Memories of Summer by Ruth White.

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Summary: Memories of Summer
Review: "Memories of Summer," by Ruth White, is a wonderfully-written teenage-based story about the Compton family who move from a small Virginia town to the huge city of Flint, Michigan. On Summer Compton's sixteenth birthday, her father tells her and her sister Lyric that they have raised enough money to move and they are overwhelmed with joy. They hurriedly move out and are on their way to starting a better life-or so they think. On the first day of school, thirteen-year-old Lyric comes home and is down in the dumps. No one talked to or introduced themselves to her. She thought that it was the worst that could have happened, but she was wrong. Her older sister, Summer, came home from high school and said just a few words. She just moped around and refused to ever go back to school again. Nevertheless, a day home from school turned into weeks which turned into months which turned into years and then a lifetime without ever going into school again. Lyric, however, went back to school the next day and made plenty of friends. In a few years, something set off a "seed" in Summer's mind that changed her life forever. She was diagnosed with a disease called Schizophrenia. The doctors had nothing to do but send her away to Pontiac State Hospital and Mr. Compton and Lyric started a new life without her.
*Sarah

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Summary: Memories of Summer
Review: "Memories of Summer," by Ruth White, is a wonderfully-written teenage-based story about the Compton family who move from a small Virginia town to the huge city of Flint, Michigan. On Summer Compton's sixteenth birthday, her father tells her and her sister Lyric that they have raised enough money to move and they are overwhelmed with joy. They hurriedly move out and are on their way to starting a better life-or so they think. On the first day of school, thirteen-year-old Lyric comes home and is down in the dumps. No one talked to or introduced themselves to her. She thought that it was the worst that could have happened, but she was wrong. Her older sister, Summer, came home from high school and said just a few words. She just moped around and refused to ever go back to school again. Nevertheless, a day home from school turned into weeks which turned into months which turned into years and then a lifetime without ever going into school again. Lyric, however, went back to school the next day and made plenty of friends. In a few years, something set off a "seed" in Summer's mind that changed her life forever. She was diagnosed with a disease called Schizophrenia. The doctors had nothing to do but send her away to Pontiac State Hospital and Mr. Compton and Lyric started a new life without her.
*Sarah

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Summary: Memories of Summer
Review: *****= The book Memories of Summer is by Ruth White. This book is wonderful. One reason was that this book was very touching because of how the sisters stayed together. It is about these two girls, Lyric and Summer. In this book, these two sisters lose their mother while living in Glory Bottom, Virginia. The dad told the girls that they would be going to move to Flint, Michigan. The girls find the good news on Summers 15th birthday. Then they move into this very small apartment. After a few days in Flint, Summer becomes mentally ill. She just really starts to act weird. The doctor told Poppy that one day Summer would be so bad they would have to put her in the mental hospital. Read the book to find out more.

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Summary: Disappearing Girl
Review: A Review by Laura

Lyric and Summer are the best of sisters. In the beginning they live a simple life in the hills in Virginia. Then they move to Michigan with their father to start a new life. Summer has a mental illness that is triggered by the move and change of schools. Summer starts to loose control and the illness takes over causing extreme trauma and hardship in their new life. The family is torn. What will they do to bring Summer back?

I liked how this book was written from a young girl's perspective. It shows how difficult young life can be and how you have to do you best to deal with the hardships. It showed a true character of an early teenager. I didn't like how most of the book was dreary but that was how it was meant to be. If you want a happy book you might want to try something else. I do like how the book was written. The author used dialogue that was realistic and represented the time and place that the characters were in. It was a believable story...sad but it was the truth of life.

I would recommend this book to people who want a serious read. It is a book of sadness and a book of family problems. I enjoyed it and it wasn't hard to understand.

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Summary: The Most Touching
Review: I have read a lot of books but none of them have touched me as much as Memories of Summer. It's written from the perspective of the younger sister, viewing her scitzophrenic older sister. I was crying by the end because of two things. It was a sad book. It's ending really brought me to my senses. Also, it's power and moving elloquence really made me feel radiated. I reccomend it to everyone who's anyone.

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Summary: Memories of Summer
Review: I think the book Memories Of Summer by Ruth White is a great book! It is about a girl named Summer that is schizophrenic. Her sister, Lyric, cares a lot about her and tries to do everything she can, but just can't do it. Summer does not listen to anything her
sister says. She refuses to go to school, get dressed, take a bath and eat. Summer's sister and her father have only one choice. Read the book to find out about there difficult decision.

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Summary: Awsome!!!!!
Review: I thought this book was excelent. I felt that I could understand how Lyric was feeling. It was a very touching and moving novel that made me realize that some of my problems that I think are awful really aren't that big of a deal. It made me realize that there will always be someone in the world that will have a bigger problem than me.
This book made a big difference in my life, and could do so to others. I recomend this book to anyone looking for a great novel that you will never want to give up.

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Summary: Memmories of Summer
Review: I thought this was a great book.I talks about real life issues.In the book Lyric, her sister Summer, and their father are in a new city and Summer has disease.Lyric and her father are trying to keep her under control but they can't and Lyric is afraid she'll lose her sweet sister.

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Summary: Touching but sad
Review: I'm in my 20's and I really loved this book.I read it all in one sitting. It was so sad, and it made you wish Summer lived in a different time so she could have been helped more.