Eleven-year-old Edie Jasmine Snow has a "perfect" thirteen-year-old sister, two loving parents, and a cat named Dusty. She also has a grandmother she suspects is a witch and a grandfather who insists on calling her Albert. Framed by family summer vacations at the lake, All-Season Edie follows Edie through a tumultuous year in which her beloved grandfather becomes ill. In the face of family tragedy, Edie tries to practice witchcraft, learns to dance the flamenco, meets the Greek god Zeus doing his Christmas shopping at the mall, ruins the most important party of her sister's life and realizes that her family is both completely strange and absolutely normal. (20080307)
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Wry, fast, and funny, 11-year-old Edie’s first-person, present-tense narrative is wicked about her obsessive rivalry with her cool older sister, Dexter. But along with all the bitchiness about what to wear and what to say at home, in the mall, and at school, there is also family sorrow about Grandpa, who is struggling after a minor stroke. Edie wonders if learning witchcraft would help her cast a spell to save Grandpa—as well as exert some control over Dexter. Set in a Vancouver suburb during the course of a year, this debut children’s book by an author best known for adult short stories gets the preteen voice perfectly—from anger arising from family tensions to the worry about Grandpa and the trivia (Edie is much too cool to use a word like cool). The episodes reach a satisfying climax as summer comes round again, and things do change. Grades 5-7. --Hazel Rochman
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"...this debut children's book by an author best known for adult short stories gets the preteen voice perfectly..." (Booklist 20080315)
"Recommended." (CM Magazine 20080401)
"...an effortless read, an honest and beautiful book..." (The Globe and Mail 20080501)
"...an engrossing pre-teen novel." (The Vancouver Sun 20080501)
"...a fun book to read...would fit well into any school or classroom library..." (Resource Links 20080501)
"...astonishingly fresh...has the classic flavor of Ramona and Beezus, as if they had hit middle school and met the new millennium..." (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 20080901)
*no details* (VOYA )
"Subtle, sad, and hilarious, it has a wonderful way with words and features characters that stick." (Quill & Quire )
"It is fun to read Edie's witty language." (WASHYARG )
"Recommended." (CM Magazine 20080401)
"...an effortless read, an honest and beautiful book..." (The Globe and Mail 20080501)
"...an engrossing pre-teen novel." (The Vancouver Sun 20080501)
"...a fun book to read...would fit well into any school or classroom library..." (Resource Links 20080501)
"...astonishingly fresh...has the classic flavor of Ramona and Beezus, as if they had hit middle school and met the new millennium..." (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 20080901)
*no details* (VOYA )
"Subtle, sad, and hilarious, it has a wonderful way with words and features characters that stick." (Quill & Quire )
"It is fun to read Edie's witty language." (WASHYARG )
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