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1. Saturday Trailer: Summer of Yesterday

What better day for book trailers than a Saturday?

Gaby Triana’s Summer of Yesterday was released in June.

Back to the Future meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Haley’s summer vacation takes a turn for the retro in this totally rad romantic fantasy.

Summer officially sucks. Thanks to a stupid seizure she had a few months earlier, Haley’s stuck going on vacation with her dad and his new family to Disney’s Fort Wilderness instead of enjoying the last session of summer camp back home with her friends. Fort Wilderness holds lots of childhood memories for her father, but surely nothing for Haley. But then a new seizure triggers something she’s never before experienced—time travel—and she ends up in River Country, the campground’s long-abandoned water park, during its heyday.

The year? 1982.

And there—with its amusing fashion, “oldies” music, and primitive technology—she runs into familiar faces: teenage Dad and Mom before they’d even met. Somehow, Haley must find her way back to the twenty-first century before her present-day parents anguish over her disappearance, a difficult feat now that she’s met Jason, one of the park’s summer residents and employees, who takes the strangely dressed stowaway under his wing.

Seizures aside, Haley’s used to controlling her life, and she has no idea how to deal with this dilemma. How can she be falling for a boy whose future she can’t share? (Amazon)


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2. Walk a mile in another's paws

Tracks of a Panda
by Nick Dowson; illustrated by Yu Rong

Candlewick Press

Like Chinese poetry, this narrative is lean and flowing, celebrating nature by immersing us in it. Though not technically a poem, the text has that same rhythmic feel of translated Chinese verse, and even mimics its minimalist descriptions and solemn tone.

It's told in the present tense as if unfolding right now, from the mother panda's perspective but without anthropomorphizing. Dowson takes us through birth and the first year, as seasons change, food becomes scarce and the mother's strength falters. Predators and humans encroach, and there's the never-ceasing need to suckle even when she's exhausted and starved.

Nope, you don't get a sentimentalized, Disney-fied version of a dancing Mama bear and her goofy cub played by a hyper-caffeinated Robin Williams. Nature is tough, but  wondrous, if you know how to appreciate it.

This is a book for a quiet evening, one free of distractions, when curious eyes can marvel at the soothing, monochromatic watercolors with the occasional splash of fleshy pink or spring green. Rong grew up near the mountains that are home to dwinding panda populations and captures their habitat with a few easy strokes of a calligraphy brush.

Factoids on pandas are dropped onto every spread to satisfy your little must-know-it-all. Pair this book with Fox for a similar venture into the forest.

Rating: *\*\*\*\

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