Summer of Stolen Secrets

Authors: Sternberg, Julie
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BISAC/Subject: JUV039020, JUV013030, JUV033020
ISBN: 9780593203651, Related ISBNs: 059320364X, 0593203658, 0593459229, 0593459237, 9780593203644
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 288,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis: A city girl spends the summer in the South and learns the secrets of her estranged extended family.

Catarina has never met her strict Jewish grandmother. But now, with an opportunity to spend three weeks in Baton Rouge and away from her best-friends-turned-bullies, Cat packs her bags and leaves New York City to get to know the woman who has always been a mystery. Down South, she begins working at her grandmother's luxury department store with her rebellious cousin Lexie. Nothing seems to be going right and nobody talks about the past. But just when Cat is starting to think that this whole trip may have been a huge mistake, she stumbles onto a secret from a time her grandmother refuses to speak of. Suddenly Cat's summer, and everything she thought she knew, has changed.

Award-winning author Julie Sternberg tells a tender family story full of humor, heart, and heartbreak that reveals the power of forgiveness and proves it's never too late to start over.
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