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Shark Summer

By Ira Marcks
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Summer begins on Martha's Vineyard, but Gayle feels stuck. Recovering from a broken arm and burdened by hospital bills, she’s uninterested in the local softball team, the Hollywood film Shark!, or working the ice cream stand. When new friends Maddie and Elijah arrive, Gayle hatches a plan to win a youth film contest prize to fund their dream ice cream stand. Yet their movie project unexpectedly unearths a hidden island mystery that changes everything.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy graphic novels featuring summer adventures, friendship, and mysteries set in evocative locales. Suitable for teens and young adults intrigued by coming-of-age stories and cinematic storytelling.

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"When a Hollywood director starts filming a blockbuster action film on the otherwise sleepy island of Martha's Vineyard, thirteen-year-old Gayle and her friends set out to make their own film and solve an island mystery."--Provided by publisher.

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Summer has begun on Martha's Vineyard, but Gayle isn't interested. Not in working at an ice cream stand. Not in softball, since she broke her arm on a bad play and hasn't seen her team since. Not even in Shark!, the big Hollywood movie being filmed on the island. All she wants to do is help her mother open their long-planned ice cream stand. But because of Gayle's hospital bills, they don't have the money to do even that.

Enter Maddie and Elijah, Gayle's new friends and her ticket off this cursed island. With their help, Gayle schemes to win a youth film contest and use the prize money to get the ice cream stand up and running. But those plans quickly go awry as their movie uncovers a long-dormant island mystery and the friends' very reasons for creating the film irrevocably shift.

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"A winning production." – Kirkus Reviews
A strong addition to graphic novel shelves. – School Library Journal
"Marcks ... has accomplished an unusual feat with this cinematic homage: He has produced a meta-graphic novel that manages to deconstruct a genre, pay tribute to it and keep the reader happily inside it all at the same time. More popcorn please!" – The New York Times
"Shark Summer bursts with vibrant, expressive art capturing a summer on Martha's Vineyard, weaving a mystery amid local gossip and school drama. Characters are distinct and relatable, kids with big dreams and friendship challenges. A lovely read!" – Molly Knox Ostertag, author-illustrator of the Witch Boy series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780316461382

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 May 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Little, Brown Young Readers

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 880g

Pages: 304

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Adult Graphic Novels Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Graphic Novels Humour Ira Marcks

About the Author

Ira Marcks is a cartoonist living in Upstate New York with his wife, two cats, a dog, and lots of books he's been meaning to read. His love for ancient magic and possible futures has led him to create a warehouse of esoteric objects for the Hugo Award-winning magazine Weird Tales and to tell stories about villainous technology for the European Research Council. Shark Summer is his debut graphic novel.

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