The Summer of June, Jamie Sumner
The Summer of June, Jamie Sumner
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The Summer of June

Author: Jamie Sumner

Narrator: Lillie Ricciardi

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/31/2022


Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Tune It Out and Roll with It comes a “needed, hopeful” (Booklist) middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one life-changing summer.

Twelve-year-old June Delancey is kicking summer off with a bang. She shaves her head and sets two goals: she will beat her anxiety and be the lion she knows she can be, instead of the mouse everyone sees. And she and her single mama will own their power as fierce, independent females.

With the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-citing soccer star who believes in June even when she doesn’t believe in herself, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true. But when her anxiety becomes too much, everything begins to fall apart. It’s going to take more than a haircut and some flowers to set things right. It’s going to take courage and friends and watermelon pie. Forget second chances. This is the summer of new beginnings.

About Jamie Sumner

Jamie Sumner is the author of Roll with ItTime to Roll, Rolling OnTune It OutOne Kid’s TrashThe Summer of JuneMaid for ItDeep WaterPlease Pay AttentionSchooled, and Glory Be. Her work has appeared in The New York TimesThe Washington Post, and other publications. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids. She is also the mother of a son with cerebral palsy and has written extensively about parenting a child with special needs. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at Jamie-Sumner.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on May 25, 2022

This is a book that I am going to be recommending to my library friends all summer long. Love that yellow cover with the Black-eyed Susans and that lion of a girl? The book inside is all of that and more. June and her mother work with a therapist to help June manage her anxiety. To keep herself from......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on November 01, 2022

The writing is good, the plot is interesting, the characters are realistic. However, I just couldn’t connect more with the main character or the writing I wanted to. I feel the representation is done well when it comes to anxiety. But I feel I need more than that. Definitely a good short book.......more

Goodreads review by Erin on July 30, 2022

So full of such heart and love. Tiny Craig and I loved it and are now craving watermelon pie!......more

Goodreads review by Candice on January 25, 2022

This is the best book I’ve read in a long time. Maybe it’s because I can really relate to it. Anxiety is a fickle monster rearing it’s head when you least expect it and beg it not to. It’s always at the worst times. June’s story is one of the most important stories I’ve read for middle grade student......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on June 01, 2022

June decides to shave her head as a way to help cope with her severe anxiety. The daughter of a single mother who always seems to have a revolving door of not great boyfriends, June has developed a habit of pulling out her hair (a condition called trichotillomania or ‘trich’). It’s gotten so bad she......more