Secondhand Summer
Part of the Secondhand Summer series
- Subject
- Social Themes - New Experience
- Age
- 9-12 years
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 170
- Publisher
- Alaska Northwest Books
- Size
- 15.0 cm × 22.6 cm
- ISBN
- 9781943328420
Set in Alaska in 1965, a coming-of-age story of loss, adventure, violence, and redemption
Fourteen-year-old Sam Barger’s life changes forever when his father dies and his family is forced to move from a remote homestead and fishing camp to the busy city of Anchorage. Life in the big city hits Sam a little differently; suddenly he’s surrounded by cars and girls, poverty and diversity, and new places to explore. One day he and his new friends stumble upon an abandoned nightclub, and it fires up Sam’s imagination and leads him into dangers he never expected. Can he survive the wilds of Anchorage before the end of summer?
Secondhand Summer is the gripping debut novel inspired by author Dan Walker’s own life and experiences.
About the author
Dan L. WalkerAuthor
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What reviewers said
"When his father dies suddenly, an adolescent boy faces more than one kind of loss as he navigates the perilous path between childhood and maturity in a new city in Walker’s debut novel. . . . Walker’s first-person narrative is engaging and vivid as he describes Sam’s earnest progress toward discovering who he is. The author skillfully evokes the world of adolescent boys, full of gross-out jokes, territorial challenges, and a few true friends. . . . [SECONDHAND SUMMER] is absorbing as it describes the painfully awkward moment before kids become 'teenagers with cars and adults with power.' As…
". . . A debut novel by Dan L. Walker, a lifelong Alaskan and former schoolteacher who lives near Seward. Set in 1965 and loosely based on Walker's own experiences, it tells of Sam Barger, a 14-year-old from Ninilchik whose fisherman and homesteading father dies, prompting his mother to move the family to Anchorage.
While innumerable Alaska novels — for kids and adults — follow characters from the city into the wilds, 'Secondhand Summer' goes the reverse direction. Sam finds himself torn from a remote cabin overlooking Kachemak Bay and in a low-rent apartment on Government Hill. Unaccustomed…
