| 单词 | summer |
| 例句 | Then the heat sinks heavily into our shell-holes like a jellyfish, moist and oppressive and on one of these late summer days, while bringing food, Kat falls. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As the summer approached, all this was changed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I walked so fast I was drifting along the streets, and the feeling that hit my cheek was a cool breeze out of the summer night. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The illness, which came from drinking unpasteurized milk, had sickened at least eight people in Smyth County that summer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A girl in a light summer dress, with a red patent-leather belt about her hips! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the garden at home on summer evenings, he had listened many times to the sound of grasshoppers chirping in the grass, and he had always liked the noise that they made. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z He was huge, with ripped muscles from working on the forges every summer, two years older than me, and one of the camp’s best armorsmiths. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z On Beechwood summer fifteen, the aunties filled in for Gran, making slumps and fussing around Granddad as if he hadn’t been living alone in Boston since Tipper died in October. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Elizabeth asks because Lou Anne’s wearing a gray wool dress in the heat of summer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I had the great luck one summer of studying the three-toed sloth in situ in the equatorial jungles of Brazil. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z All I could think of was the fissure in the dining room pavilion, where those skeletons had been consumed last summer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He smelled the waxy dark green leaves, and remembered climbing the big cottonwood trees along the river and plucking heavy hanging bunches of cottonwood berries that grew on the female trees late in the summer. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We didn't mind a couple of weeks, but a whole summer? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z ‘We could all set out on summer evenings, recalling Honest Abe. That park we got now is just wasteland the Wabash Railroad didn’t want.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Remember last summer, when we flew the kite?” said Papa. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I missed you all summer,” she said in a soft voice. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The state also has what are reputed to be the meanest rattlesnakes anywhere along the trail, and the most unreliable water sources, particularly in high summer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Then he went on and on about how Gus taught him how to make a slingshot and how sometimes Bertha sells bread-and-butter pickles by the side of the road in the summer. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I lift the hose high; water falls like a soft summer shower. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z What I wouldn’t give to relive that summer. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A south wind was blowing up from the sea, rustling the black trees of the gardens, and through that warm stormy summer dusk I hastened from him as from a murderer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1902, working on grasshopper sperm and egg cells—which have particularly gigantic chromosomes—Sutton also postulated that genes were physically carried on chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was a hot day in the middle of summer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When the heat brought with it summer clothing, it became apparent to all of us that Wab was expecting a baby. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She wore a sleeveless summer dress, a row of white plastic beads, and spectacles on a chain that hung like a swing against her chest. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “When I go back to Raleigh,” I said, “I’m gonna take swimming lessons like I did last summer.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Why couldn’t they put that in a college fund or at least buy an air conditioner so we don’t melt in the summer? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When they first came to California, my grandparents picked asparagus in the spring and grapes in the summer and fall. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Nathan then realized that he missed his father, and he started to feel bad for being so rude to him this summer. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The cost of this trip keeps going up, but I’ll make it back this summer working in my dad’s office, and anyway, it’s a small ransom to pay for Margo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Johnson holds his head down, tucks his jacket collar in like it isn't summer. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It hit me again, the enormity of what I had done that winter and that following summer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of the work was also performed at Woods Hole, where Morgan would move his lab every summer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I believe your talent is above what we could develop here. There is a summer program, however, in Vilnius.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They tore through the hot days of summer, knocking over all comers, winning with daring and flair. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I had been mortified, then disappointed when he said he was only visiting for the summer from Seattle. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The summer visitors in Delhi are dressed in old pants and T-shirts, too. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She sets me to work “zoning” the Bobbie Brooks knit summer dresses, a task that could serve as an IQ test for the severely cognitively challenged. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The heavy summer rains had more than enchanted everyone; the days that followed had brought forth a most unexpected, spectacular surprise. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z All summer they looked at his pinned-up sleeve with the surprised, unaccustomed faces his fellow islanders had stopped making. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It had been freshly whitewashed that summer, and flowers circled the wooden cross that stood in the front. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I went to summer school. I’m not a genius.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Let me tell you something—I’ll never forget last summer, when I visited my family’s ancestral home in Gujarat.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z During that long summer, from mid-May to late September, I thought about it as I walked the tunnels and corridors from the lineup room to various buildings up the hill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph didn’t have any real baby carriage like most folks’ babies did, or any summer bootees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He took a pinch of the pickled eggplant Mariam had made that summer. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The sporadic grumbles that can suddenly overrun a town like a summer forest fire had been given another excuse to ignite again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The 1933 Poughkeepsie Regatta had been canceled due to the Depression, but Washington returned to Long Beach that summer to race against the best crews the East had to offer: Yale, Cornell, and Harvard. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Their relationship seemed to have started the summer between ninth and tenth grades and lasted a few months. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z They are super romantic about it—how they spent the summer putting on theater productions in the woods—so I’m kind of not allowed to say how much I hated it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I prayed that the food hadn’t all rotted in the summer heat. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “It was the summer of 1969 and we were a month and a half from air date,” Lesser remembers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd been trying to use snares all summer with no success, so I couldn't help dropping my sacks to examine this one. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z True, the cabin was hot in summer, and filled with cold drafts in the winter, and the smoke from the fireplace half blinded them, but it was still a good place —it was their home. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Root told Dora of his weariness and suggested that in the coming summer they should escape somewhere for a long rest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Each day through the summer she ran the hill path. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1888 he bought the land and, thinking ahead, registered the deed under a false name, H. S. Campbell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I am hoping the owner changes his mind by the end of summer. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Jobs not only received the parts he asked for, he managed to wrangle a summer job. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He wanted a full scholarship to Georgetown and summer internships with United States senators. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “But, anyway, next summer seems like a long way off, I know,” he joked, which made us laugh. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Doc mom fed us bagels with butter and sweet tomato jam she’d made from her own summer garden, and we drank black coffee and orange juice. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The sounds of her dressing were so familiar to Tuck that he could say, without opening his eyes, “You don’t need that shawl in the middle of the summer.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summers he came home to take his father’s place in the fields, for cabin rent had to be paid with field work. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As the summer of coconuts wears on, Felicia hears Saint Sebastian speaking to her inside her head. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The setting sun played hide-and-seek with some purple clouds stretched out along the Jersey City skyline, and a warm summer breeze swooshed in through the open Cadillac windows and made a mess of her hair. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But over the summer the virus underwent some strange transformation and over the next six months ended up killing between 20 and 40 million people worldwide. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And when she tells me about Cassidy's plan to hook up with one of her crushes before the summer is over, I can't hold it in anymore. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “He was cut in half by a skier’s boat two summers ago,” Pinkie said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally one warm summer afternoon, those tensions boiled over. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Hammered into the bronze were pictures in Ancient Greek style, scenes from our adventures this summer. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Far back in the woods there was still fog in the trees, caught in the branches like fragments of white summer, and Lee remembered: Bow down Thy Heavens, 0 Lord, and come down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Zion told me it’s actually summer down there right now,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As the yellow light of summer streamed into the darkness, they saw the straw of the beds scattered all over the floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It's like being in a summer rain, only warmer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They were now named the 46th Taman Guards in honor of their spring and summer harassing the German troops in the Taman Peninsula. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports, and after I got to know her, the whole summer long we played tennis together almost every morning and golf almost every afternoon. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The rose garden sighed with him and readied itself for the onslaught of summer, hot and sticky, bright and merciless. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “It's from that summer house he had. The one his father gave him that we never went to. He has to liquidate it and I’m getting the money!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z They talked about things that were foreign to me, like summer internships and historically black colleges. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was the best kind of summer morning—not too hot, not too sunny, and not too many mosquitoes out to bite me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I remember the time I went fishing at summer camp. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z When the summer is over, we go back. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Then toward the end of the summer, the second card arrived, and all it said was ‘Leaving Fairbanks tomorrow, see you in a couple of weeks.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A cool breeze had beaten back the onslaught of summer, and on the morning the Old Man gave us our final exams, he suggested we have class outside. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I overhear my parents talk about things like “Can we do without an air conditioner one more year?” or “Maybe I can work two jobs this summer.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z All these sounds made him feel comfortable and happy, for he loved life and loved to be a part of the world on a summer evening. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z For example, one afternoon earlier this summer, I had a taste for a Big Mac and a shake. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z In Logan County, Virginia, summer ended when school started. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I was jealous of him. He had you and Jem to himself all summer long, while I had to go home the day school was out. There was nobody at home to fool around with.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then suddenly, like a summer rain, Sister Monroe broke through the cloud of people trying to hem her in, and flooded up to the pulpit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no way you get a pass for not doing anything meaningful this summer,” Dad says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z We live in Texas, right on the Gulf, and it’s hot, but Biddy wearing that coat summer and winter, in class and out. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Throughout that summer and during the next few years, Bobby began making chess friends at the club. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mapping out memory lane seemed like an epic way to close out this summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We'd already lost so many people over the summer, but this was the worst. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Auntie Alice sent me an animated GIF of kids running free from a school bus, with the caption School’s out for summer! The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Our letters were like a yearlong conver-sation, answering questions back and forth, continuing face-to- face at Christmas or between summer school sessions. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The light summer rain cooled them off after the thick haze of Club Kalfour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He told me that before his heart attack he had been asked to go as a delegate to the Zionist General Council that was to meet in Palestine during the coming summer. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The five dollars his father had advanced reduced Jody to peonage for the whole late spring and summer. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But my memory is uncertain; I recall a summer storm in the town where we lived and imagine a summer my mother knew in 1929. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d left Georgia at the height of a peach-blossom summer and now stood in a bewildering dry, red fog that seemed like no particular season you could put your finger on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Flatiron? Like the hair thing? That makes you go from frizz to fab in the summers?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Last summer on sunny days I cycled as far as Ordnance Survey Map 150'd let me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z And browner than a serf in summer, I swear it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In Sylvan we’d had a rumor at the first of the summer about a busload of people from New York City showing up to integrate the city pool. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are your friends working on their projects over the summer, too?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Annabeth had grown taller than me since last summer, which I found kind of disturbing. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And that’s how we spent the perfect summer day in New York City, doing all the best things I like to do. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z See, the shoes are bait, like I’m one of those fat bass fish Granddaddy likes to catch in the summer and Dee-Nice is Supreme’s bobber. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Somehow, I knew what time it was: early morning, June 21, the day of the summer solstice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “I think you have slipped in any number of ways since last year. I understand for example that there was gaming in my dormitory this summer while you were living there.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was late in the summer and we were all seated around the kitchen table making our plans to go to El Puerto for the harvest when my mother with strange premonition remembered Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And today, on this summer Saturday of 1912, what was the bowl holding? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A salting of broken glass glinted in the summer sun. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “The summer basically just ended. And then when school started, it was like you were next.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I can build it in three seasons. Tomorrow is the first day of winter. It would only take me a winter, a summer, and another winter to build.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “We’ll be featuring some local teen poets who were part of the Poetry Out Loud summer workshops. So give ’em a round of applause, y’all.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But in one small corner of the country, something large was beginning to stir that terribly hot summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This is what matters to me: the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing his parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It went like this: One day in the summer, we went up to Mr. Abbas after Bible study to show him our mug rugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Yes. His son usually takes him out a couple of times during the summer for a short ride.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Down below, Taninli was ablaze with fairy lights: thousands upon thousands of them, winking like fireflies in a summer evening. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t really have a summer break in the conventional sense because I started teaching at a university. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She had gotten it for her birthday last summer, and there hadn’t been a day since that she hadn’t taken a picture of something. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “Cowboy Charlie” Irwin ran two businesses: a raucous Wild West show in summer and an even more raucous racing stable in winter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon peace and summer rested on the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Greenville is different this summer, Roman is well and out back, swinging hard. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The count spent most of the summer as a guest at Tres Marias. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to share this summer world with Lindsey when she came, all of what was best about Miles City in July spread out before us like a picnic table heaped with pies. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z We could squeeze that laughter in our hands, feel its warmth, like stones that hold the days heat on a summer evening. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Two green thumbs that will grow into orange-yellow delights smelling of summer. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Flowers grow on her tiny wrought-iron balcony, and in summer she can estimate what time of day it is by feeling how wide the petals of the evening primroses have opened. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Wright surprise us all one day by telling my mama that her and Massa was gonna take me and Missy up north for the summer. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Scheduled to run that summer, the show would consist of one-hour dramas based on familiar novels and stories. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I got my own leather necklace, and when I saw the bead for my first summer, I was glad the firelight covered my blushing. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then sweeping out of the northwest like a swarm of locusts there came one day in early summer a horde of men. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Jason tells a story about how we convinced our entire school to wear nothing but underwear the day before summer vacation two years ago. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A bleak season came upon the island—a rotting monsoon or a parched summer—and fruit supplies dwindled drastically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Moreover, ice was easily available in much of Europe: in Florence, for example, it was brought down from the Apennines throughout the summer in order to keep fish fresh. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like a small, striped snake, like a salamander, or a squirrel maybe, or a raccoon, something quick, little, harmless, and desperate, she slid, crept, wiggled underneath the sides of the summer house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1974 Turkey and Greece were about to be in the news again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Therefore, you will have a special assignment to complete during the summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A breeze was coming in the back, door, and some mourning doves that had nested on the back porch were cooing, making that slippery, burbling sound that Calder always associated with summer in his neighborhood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the sky: it had a bright blue intensity that only autumn and the movement of the sun from its summer place in the sky could give it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well. I saw that station when Nico and I came through last summer. I remember being really surprised to see it, because it wasn’t here when we used to live in D.C.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Thousands of lapel tags were quickly printed up, and students on campus for summer session began to sell them for fifty cents apiece in the hallways. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the summers in Delhi, so very hot, my sisters and I would lie upon it and try to press ourselves into its world. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z During the summer of 1848, at the age of sixteen, James went to work on his older cousin's boat on the canal that connected Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I had to get up at seven because of summer school. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I turn thirteen next summer, so I got a minute. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Francis was in Manhattan the whole summer that I was in Brooklyn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I started going that summer when it never rained and the Malvern Hills turned brown and fires broke out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z That summer, Joseph came every day— except the weekends, when Madeleine’s parents were home. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The air was thick with humid summer heat which seemed to rise off the grass like steam. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the vacation cabins the pilots had been living in all summer turned out to be drafty and freezing cold in the winter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I want to show them The thirty books I devoured In the summer read-a-thon. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He then reeled off an account of my actions on every job I had held that summer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a smell of tar, of summer, and of sweaty feet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His good humor disarmed them in the end, and they wound up spending the remainder of the summer on good terms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were at your Aunt Ophelia’s for more than a summer. You were there for nine months.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was early evening that summer day last year. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He looked up at the summer stars, at blue Venus and red Mars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I looked at my hands, which had grown harder over the summer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I don’t know if I’m ready to upload a photo of a new guy to Instagram because that’s a huge statement, but it'd be nice to start having something to remember this summer by. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In the summer of that year, a young astronomer named James Christy at the U.S. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She had outgrown it last summer, but her father had promised to buy her a new one this year. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Oh, my God. Would you just tell me what you did last summer, pipsqueak?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It was summer, and that was the last thing he wanted. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Bloom stood quietly in the warm summer sunshine, absorbed by the two trucks parked beneath the water tank. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had gotten up early every day all summer to run. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z On the first day we talked, he had just returned home from six weeks at a summer performing arts camp in upstate Pennsylvania. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z One advantage of the Fertile Crescent is that it lies within a zone of so-called Mediterranean climate, a climate characterized by mild, wet winters and long, hot, dry summers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The dates on the pages are all from the late summer or early fall, just weeks before she would have gone into hiding. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In a Connecticut summer two weeks without rain is a dry spell and four a drought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I had made it a lifetime ago, before the hot summer month when my grandfather and I had first recognized each other. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I dropped my backpack on the floor because I knew it’d startle her, and even though there were only the next fifty-some summer days between me and high school, I wasn’t above these immaturities. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z She was wearing the same perfume he remembered from the summer when she and Dad had been killed in the train accident. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why would you need a sweater during the hottest part of the summer?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z More if you count the times we saw each other over the summer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He swung the dead knight against the grey stone of the tower, again and again and again, until the man’s head was red and pulpy as a summer melon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z These guys looked like they flossed their teeth with the kind of money I'd make in a summer working Uncle Earl's farm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I enrolled over the summer. I was supposed to go to another school.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In other years summer vacation had been a happy time. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Old ladies began to fan themselves as if it were the middle of summer. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “It’s about balance, you know? Also, go easy on me, ’cause I sprained my ankle this summer, and I gotta take it slow before basketball starts. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z She looked me over real hard and said, “Honey, you look like an angel come down to earth. Don’t know why you’re wearing that coat in the summer, though.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m not repeating junior year because my ex-boyfriend scared me out of summer school. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “I’ll say a prayer for you, Officer,” said one pious Muslim whom I had stopped from taking extra coffee cake early that summer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, over the summer, he got contact lenses, and I noticed his eyes were bluer than the swimming pool his parents built for Carver School. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This summer she realized something about her Dad she had never known before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Too fast the summer leaves us, we kiss our grandparents good-bye and my uncle Robert is there waiting to take us home again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z There was still a little bit of light left in the summer sky, and the birds were having a riot before turning in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z My father was dark that summer from working in the backyard. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z This summer all the men in Palestine had beards, and his cousins, who didn’t, were jealous of his because it made the older girls look twice at Rashid. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The hard labor of spring planting and fall harvesting is followed, like clockwork, by the slower pace of summer and winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Joy got a job with a computer science professor so he could program over the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But the summer before ninth grade, Mom shed her baby fat like dead skin. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In the summer of '96 we also went back to Donoghue Elementary School to see how things were going. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler’s mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Five massive swimming pools—longer than fifty-meter Olympic pools, and wider—were dug so the children would have a place to cool off in the summer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He’d given me a couple of lessons last summer, but he wanted two dollars for the full course. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She did not want to wake up from that dream, and when she did she turned her face into the pillow, yearning to spend one more moment in that summer afternoon. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For much of the summer of 1932, she was a regular presence at Darlington Hall, she and his lordship often spending hour after hour deep in conversation, typically of a social or political nature. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I was glad my birthday was in the summer. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Even if it was the middle of summer and so blazing hot outside that the road was melting, supermarkets were always freezing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Why did so many people want to see Fort Sumter on a sweltering summer day? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “How do you suppose the oysters will be this summer?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Somewhere to the west. They have been doing this for four or five summers now. But I don’t remember seeing this many.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z She lost track of time, which was easy to do with the summer sun staying up so long. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Matt and Karen clad themselves with random selections from various summer and winter uniforms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The weather was still calm and fair, after one of the most lovely summers that people could remember; but October had come, and it must break soon and begin to rain and blow again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was summer, dusk, and Dad’s cousins were roughhousing the way they did after a harvest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As I drove down the interstate to reach the prison, I noticed the long rays of sunlight retreating even as the heat of the Alabama summer persisted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He lived a tidy few summers—as they say in that part of the world—and learned to know well the changes of the downs to spring, to winter and to spring again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My own kids were by then out of school for the summer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The ground is spongy with melted snow and rain, but today is one of those rare, almost balmy days that hint at the glorious summer ahead. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It didn’t thaw out and commence moving again till the summer of ’fifty-four! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Old Methuselah could only remember three other such summers in his long lifetime. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I want to know all the things I don’t know,” he’d said, sailing in the bright sunshine on a summer afternoon. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been training at a special camp for athletic prodigies like him all summer. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If things work with Arthur, we can make this place our own this summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z When he awoke he would be pleasant again, sitting in the fur- and scrap-filled room, making moosehide masks for the summer tourist trade. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Spring was sizzling into summer, and even the deepest shadows of Daffodil Manor were inhospitable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z We would of course be glad to have Harry stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, and to see him safely onto the train back to school. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And she briefly remembered her trip to Nantucket at the end of summer last year and the salt of the ocean on her tongue. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He stopped the honey wagon beside a cluster of twenty hives tucked in a thicket of trees, where the bees could have shade in the summer and shelter from the wind through the winter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Come! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!’ he said, trying to sound as cheerful as he had when he drew back the curtains at Bag End on a summer’s morning. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He really needed to hear from someone who survived summer school with his ex-boyfriend, and he promised me he would sing even louder. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z They walked over the ground where the gallows had been built last summer, where they hung the traitor Hickey. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was clearly going to be wet all day, but it was a summer rain, deepening the green of the grass and the trees, sweetening and cleaning the air. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Blowers spill out of planters, slightly overgrown and a bit wild, here at the furthest edge of summer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There had been a super cute guy who worked at the Heart He went there next, his third visit of the summer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Michael had taken over the Apollo cabin after Lee Fletcher died in battle last summer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A summer when love was everything, and we didn't talk about college or geography, and we rode buses and hopped in cars and walked city blocks in our sandals. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “It is worthless! Look how hard we worked on the garden all summer, and for what? Two baskets of chile and one of corn! Bah!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice hit him like a cool breeze—like that first cold front in Texas when the summer heat finally breaks and you start to believe things might get better. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Thank you. I’ll try to get at it this summer. Maybe some of it will come in handy when I teach Shakespeare again.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Over the summer I had learned what a pleasant land Karhide was for walking in. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z During the spring and early summer she waited for further word from him, and heard nothing more. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All the time I was working on the canoe, which was most of that summer, Rontu was with me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z So we worked all that summer, put in a kennel, bought six old freezers for dog food, brought the dogs back from the glacier in late fall, began feeding meat, and then the company came. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The summer progressed and the Salinas River retired underground or stood in green pools under high banks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I learn that Nicos family moved here over the summer because of his mom’s job. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Maybe summers would be different in another place. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Do you remember when you all came to visit us in Marbella that one summer?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z That in addition to fewer and shorter physical therapy visits, it’s possible I could return to ballet as soon as the summer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The job at Langley was a full-time position and required a six-day workweek at an office too far away to come home on weekends, as she had done during the summer at Camp Pickett. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Only kids with summer names can sit here. Let’s see, is there anyone here named June or July?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Yet it happened every summer, and every summer some nitwit tourist got gored. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Last summer Meg left a pair of gloves over at the Laurences’ and only one was returned. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the even more important cat was let out of the bag: since the middle of the summer Rosy had had evidence for a new three-dimensional form of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the summer, the cars were stiflingly hot because none were air-conditioned. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first summer I went, Aunt Cecile had pointed me down a path that led to a stream chock-full of rainbow trout. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z All the rest of the summer Maria and I buy only Bubble Yum, blow huge bubbles while I make her tell me story after story about the white family in Schenectady. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Well, anyway, that summer morning when I was gathering material for a bed, I was singing and chopping and playing a game with a raccoon I had come to know. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “September fifth is Amazon Rainforest Day. But so far this summer, sixty thousand fires have been detected. Fire season doesn’t end until December.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Let me tell you what happened this summer. This boy. I just wanted to climb up and down and all around him.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Despite my hours of freedom, the summer was not proceeding as I’d envisaged. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z By the end of that summer, White began to suspect that there was a mole inside the investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It indicates the omission of figures in dates: The summer of’68 4. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z And in the summer of 1944, Oppenheimer needed all the help he could get. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know that I agreed with her—we’d been driving all day in the hot summer sun, and we hadn’t bathed since before our swim yesterday. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It’s not as if I humiliated my husband at a summer barbecue by shouting abuse at the wife of one of his friends. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the summer of 1929, a few weeks before the beginning of term. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Than tips. Just the same here with the summer people. Cheap.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the apron and said, “You’re working for me this summer.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I initially position myself near the doors, by the summer travel books display. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Instead of the chatter of schoolkids arriving after a summer vacation, the only thing I could hear was the incessant beeping of those scary machines. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The big summer kitchen is out behind the left wing of the house, and I can already imagine the crisp fried deliciousness of Cook’s pork chops, my stomach giving its own noisy approval. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The tragedy of that summer had never impressed Jethro so deeply as it did that afternoon when the dates stared up at him with terrible significance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 2000 I returned—permanently, I have every reason to hope—to my customary place in the socioeconomic spectrum. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, Jimmy,” I said, “you going to the pool this summer?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the summer, Lori found us an apartment in a neighborhood we could afford—the South Bronx. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Even here on the coast there had been two light snowfalls in the last month of summer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The winter was as exciting as the summer—maybe more so. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “The following week,” answered Edna, adding, “It has been a pleasant summer, hasn’t it, Mademoiselle?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z By the late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Mrs. Parker told me that he always hired seniors the summer before their last year in school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I definitely get why Uncle Milton’s hanging out in Martha’s Vineyard all summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Abra turned right and led the way through the stubble of the summer’s hayfield. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the morning he left, promising to return in the summer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z One Sunday this last summer, her whole family was walking home from church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no such thing as a good magician. Let’s not forget how close we came to canceling the training sessions this summer on account of those hybrid attacks.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Yes, but you are back now; and see, you’ve brought with you a magnificent June summer morning.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The summer before he had gone to visit a friend who lived on Long Island. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I hoped he didn’t mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we’d have a lot of fun this summer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was the last week before summer and I was making the transition from weeks away from home to a month. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Their way of being kind to her was to take me in during the summers and by then they were done with me because I wasn’t a child anymore. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The intervening year helped her make the transition to everything but the Virginia heat; many was the night she pined for White Sulphur Springs’ brisk summer nights. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Another year, there was only one kid in the whole class who didn’t taste the chemical stuff, and he got killed by a drunk driver the summer after his sophomore year. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z That was the realest part of all the summer—her listening to this music on the radio and studying about it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But I am a stupid girl, so midnight finds me leading Katherine out the rarely used side door to the summer kitchen behind the school. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I have only one unpleasant memory of the summer holidays in Norway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I took summer school for two years and actually got a semester ahead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z By the time the summer was out we’d be thinking of it as Styx’s office. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In summer the children had played barefoot into the evening, chasing one another until their shadows grew long. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I know it the way you know that summer is over and winter is on its way. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z After they ate, they washed up in the sink outside the house in the warmth of the summer night. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Julie saw little of Daniel that summer and even less of him after school started. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A summer calm laid its soothing hand over everything, like death. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Akhi was back by the summer, and we started training right away. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I expected to find some islanders on the porch, sharing news and gossip, and maybe even a few summer people come to start the season early. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The last evening of summer vacation, Nhamo sat in the ruined guard tower watching the twilight fade. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was summer holiday, and the following morning I was supposed to travel to Dowa to spend time with my grandparents. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In the summer of that year, Halley visited Flamsteed in London, and he assisted him with observations, including two lunar eclipses on 27 June and 21 December. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Earlier in the summer, Luma had sent word around that she expected her players to get their hair cut short, a rule that hadn’t gone over well with some of the Under Fifteens’ best players. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Omakayas was glad of the boring time she’d spent over the summer pressing fistfuls of gumbo clay, taken from the center of the island, into those places where the dried mud had crumbled. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z You spent hours writing back to Vinny all those summers, trying to make it sound as if the girls at camp were lame, as if you were hardly having fun at all. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z At some point early in the summer, he pumped out a thirty-page memo about corporate governance that was evidently so thorough and cogent it became instantly legendary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But I also liked the ones we’d watched over the summer. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Patches of bright blue sky were beginning to appear over the castle turrets, but these signs of approaching summer did not lift Harry’s mood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Jennifer and I showing up was barely a hiccup in their afternoon activities, and they were back to their usual summer fun. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z What he was looking at did not at all resemble an erotic summer idyll, as he had supposed, but rather a marriage of body and soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air; and had actually gone beneath it, on Fiver’s assurance that it could do them no harm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not been heard of since the summer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Although evening is falling, the City Circle is brighter than a summer's day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In early summer there are plenty of things for a child to eat and drink and suck and chew. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Though she walked through a green kingdom, it was not the deep rich green of summer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Over the summer she had been relaxed, easy; now she was more upright, somehow, as if the office of the King’s Huntress made her stand taller. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He helped her plan her next summer’s courses and, obligingly enough, tried to plan out the rest of her life for her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t as many at camp as four summers ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When Grandpa was a younger man, he had spent a hot summer on the mountain, riding the white mare he used for cowboy work. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z June passed, and the days lengthened into summer, plague had died out, but with its going went many of the people of London, even some of the monks. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “But if someone doesn’t have a summer name and wants to sit with us,” she said very seriously, “we’ll still let them if they’re nice, okay?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I loved a maid as fail as summer, with sunlight in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A few months earlier, when crisp leaves had begun slipping to the ground, signaling the end of summer, Dad had been in high spirits. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Just a lad of eighteen summers Sure there’s no one can deny As he marched to death that morning How he held his head on high. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z All summer she went to movies by herself, sometimes as many as three a day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They looked like kids running a little wild during the summer. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s boiling hot, like a forgotten soda can left out on summer solstice. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was one of those fancy white summer straw hats you see brides wear at their wedding receptions. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was the bluest, clearest day of the summer. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d just gone for our last swim at the pond, the summer sun warm through the canopy of leaves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z His life had taken a most unpleasant turn since he had come home for the summer with his end-of-year report. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Never once did the dogs exhibit any symptom of uneasiness, and even when we returned to the chapel they frisked about as though they had been rabbit-hunting in a summer wood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “School! It’s summer!” shouted one of the guys from the back. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He thought dizzily of the long, burning summer months ahead. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Most of the names weren’t actually summer names, but they were names that had some kind of connection to summer. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “That’s the prime entertainment in these parts. That and staying cool come summer.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I told him it wasn’t, but he insisted I looked like this guy Daniel he’d known from summer camp. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I couldn’t get near enough to see what was the matter with him, but it occurs to me that he might be changing his summer fur for his white winter mantle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z By summer, I thought, they could both be home! Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z There was the dry hot summer morning when I scratched my bare arms on briers while picking blackberries and came home with my fingers and lips stained black with sweet berry juice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z September was around the corner, but summer lingered in full force. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z My parents got divorced the summer before ninth grade. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z During the afternoon, Miss Logan asked for volunteers to share what they were going to do during the summer; lots of hands went up. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Your whole summer is wasting away,” Bunny complained the following week in that wilting tone of disgust she was so good at. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I used to love to walk these streets of Flushing with Lelia and Mitt, bring them back here on Sunday trips during the summer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A summer spent in her white bed, her hair fanned over the pillow. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She enrolled me in summer school and I got thrown out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aimee and Michael. My friends who are in the Cape Playhouse play this summer.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I had started working for the McCready farm in the summer, though. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I’m in summer school, I wake up with that FML tightness in my chest every morning. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z They cost $20 to join for a whole summer of swimming, and I knew of no family that didn’t belong. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I first noticed him that same summer when I spotted his school portrait in the yearbook. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I used to be allowed, before this summer happened, when the door shut and stayed shut. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The buildings were old and covered with vines and the roads gracefully winding, lined with hedges and wild roses that dazzled the eyes in the summer sun. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. But I remember you telling Audrey you wanted to go this summer.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The smallfolk said that a long summer meant an even longer winter, but the maester saw no reason to frighten the child with such tales. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I hope the teacher doesn’t say, “Write an essay about your summer vacation.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z That was the whole reason she was here for the summer. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Francis’s great-aunt has an apartment on Marlborough Street. Just a few doors from the Public Garden. She goes to the country in the summer and Francis said if I wanted to stay there, I could.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z One summer, I traveled out to Chicago to see your mother. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z College students worked inside the factory in the summer, and some never went back to school. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They fattened them on the plateau during the summer, and brought them down to the buyers in late fall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was chilly in the evenings now, with summer ending. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z None of those things, though, will improve her math and reading skills, and every carefree summer day she spends puts her further and further behind Alex. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness--it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The climax came at noon one summer day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On the back page, there's a painting of an outdoor cafe, tables and chairs set out on what looks to be a summer evening. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Next day, late July of summer fifteen, there was a lunch at Clairmont. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z As my mother and I approached the summer heat bore down on us, and a cicada started up, like an aerial lawnmower, in the heart of a copper beech tree at the back. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He knows that Charles has never seen me like this—that every day all last summer, I rushed home and removed every stain, every smudge, hiding cuts and calluses beneath new clothes and makeup. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had made friends during that youth- shattering summer with a group of slick street boys. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My summer trip to Europe did give me some sense of a world beyond suburban Pennsylvania, though. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “There’s lots of kids going south for the summer.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z By afternoon the weather was almost warm as summer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This summer we’re in a rented cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But in the west I could see the summer sun was already low, hovering in its own blinding light before it wedded night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z During the drafting process in the summer of 1796, Washington kept urging Hamilton to insert a separate section on the creation of a national university in the capital city now being constructed on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “We have big, beautiful brains. We invent things that fly. Fly. We write poetry. You probably hate poetry, but it’s hard to argue with ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “It’s been a really hard summer for him. And it got even tougher when he found out you were leaving.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It sounds like Soojin had a lot to think about this summer too. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z One summer the otter did not leave, the summer that Rontu died, and I knew then that none of the otter who remembered the hunters were left. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z As you can imagine, convincing my parents to let me spend part of my summer on a tiny island off the coast of Wales was no easy task. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was made of gray stone, which was cool in summer and very cold in winter. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They had someone to plow the snow in the winter and mow the lawn in the summer. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She wanted me to wear the T-shirts of Christian rock bands and to go to the summer camps, the rallies, to talk the talk and walk the walk. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z She hugged Harry very tightly when she saw him and whispered in his ear, “I think Dumbledore will let you come to us later in the summer. Keep in touch, Harry.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “In summer I always remember her with dirt under her nails and on her jeans. She had a pair she only wore for gardening. I swear the knees were made of mud patches.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When Hamlet arrived one summer, dark-skinned from some adventure upon the seas, Gertrude embraced him and petted him as if he were still a boy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “They take care of your mansion for you all year and you get rid of them for the summer, huh?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Below this smile, as if displayed on a trophy shelf, were the new breasts she had gotten over the summer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Do you realize that three summers ago the most exciting moment of my life was welcoming guests to The Children’s Home?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Ever since school let out this summer, it had been nothing but skin pigment every livelong day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a bright, smiling yellow that buzzed like a summer day. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z If only the summer house were as warm as the cinder block house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Is Dad going to be transferred anywhere this summer, Mama?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Throwing me over Devil’s Drop is his obsession this summer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z "The program he wrote for us that summer was flawless," says Walt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the summer trees their car made a lonely sound. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered that he played during the summers at Tres Marias, but it was all so long ago that memory had almost erased it, and he did not recognize the place. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent one summer with Cecile and all of a sudden Fern was too big for Miss Patty Cake, too big for the night-light, and too big for me to pick her up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Mr. Trouble. He wasn’t any more trouble than any of the other kids, but one summer, he got it in his head that he couldn’t do anything right.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael Chambers trained as a marine rifleman with seven hundred and fifty other recruits at Parris Island, South Carolina, in the late summer of 1942. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, in the summer, the ice was sold to the iceman. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her cheekbones were still high and strong, but the skin was parched and ruddy from all those winters and summers exposed to the elements. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The following summer the hotel placed Katherine as a clerk in its lobby antiques store, making much better use of her charisma. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "Was that the summer we spent in Beirut or, no, I'm thinking of the time we sailed from Cyprus and took the Orient Express to Istanbul." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Drawings of things Ivy loved, like the little cape off the Gulf of Mexico where her family went the summer she was ten, water like a sapphire under the sun. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Walkmans had started appearing at Hailsham since the previous year’s Sales and by that summer there were at least six of them in circulation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z June chattered on about how she was going to visit her old friends in California for a week this summer and how she loves the gymnastics unit we’re doing in gym class. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The summer sun dried the denim in a matter of minutes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was this waitress at the hotel he worked at as a busboy the last summer at Cape Cod. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Luma didn’t know what she would do then, so she focused on the remaining games and vowed to find a field over the summer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “It was horrible not having you around this summer, Jenna,” I said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The summer wore on, and things got worse. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Annabeth imagined that most of the locals had gone on summer vacation, or were holed up at home taking a siesta. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Viola’s skin was no darker than mine at the end of summer, although she was careful to stay out of the sun, while I didn’t care. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He’d been one of Lukes men until Clarisse rescued him from the Labyrinth last summer, and I guess he still felt guilty about it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It was summer and from a high ceiling was suspended a huge electric fan that whirred. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent a lot of time that summer at the Herman W. Block Memorial Library. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Happy that summer is nearly here. You know how she hates the cold.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z But now when summer comes our family gets on a plane, flies to Africa Hawaii Chicago. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z This was too good to be true, a long trip in the Brown Bomber and no Byron for the whole summer! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This was how summer was supposed to feel. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was taken a few summers ago on the front porch of our house during a Fourth of July barbecue. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “I knew that Aron wasn’t around very much this summer, but I thought he was just out playing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It smelled like the Mercy Seat meetin’-house picnic held every summer. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “What a lovely pattern for a summer dress, María. You look beautiful.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z James had found the cave the summer they were rock hunting. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 32 BCE, Mark Antony formally divorced Octavia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z With so many “cast members” not returning, there are a lot of new hirees—including an eighteen-year-old ticket taker at the front gate whose mother forced him to take a summer job. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We walked down into the valley and found the summer session in full swing. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In June, I escaped the dreaded school for the summer. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z All summer, I marked off the days on a calendar that hung on our kitchen wall. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It was a fair place even in the summer when the sun laced into it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s been a bad summer,” the major said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Lyra woke early to find the morning quiet and warm, as if the city never had any other weather than this calm summer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And because his strategy for surviving the summer was simply this: stay on their good side. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z In my dream, he healed Dante’s bird and set it free into the summer sky. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The summer of 1958 came, and with it, floating ships of clouds that lazily drifted by, docking sometimes in the afternoon to produce a shower to loosen the dust off the houses and the cars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She spent a whole summer with the gray ball, the little ball of fur and string and hair always floating in the light near her but which she did not see because she never looked. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like every time I went down there, she was washing floors or windows, one, despite she’d cleaned the whole house good last summer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And so every summer Colin went to smart-kid camp and with each passing year it became increasingly clear to him that he wasn't qualified to do anything, which is what he told Hollis Wells. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The bright summer morning hummed to the bustle of industrious woodlanders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It has a view of the bay, and the mountains across it, and, in the summer, endless light. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One summer my parents sent me and Charlie to stay with our uncle Joe in Seattle. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And summer vacation in a month and a half, and where on earth was I going to spend it? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Spencer added, “Yeah, but remember last summer when it got so hot we had to feed the chickens ice water to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sunday afternoons the Tillermans chose to go to a small park nearby because on summer weekends it was less crowded than the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The next year he begged to have him come for the entire summer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath of the summer air. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She had that scar on her cheek to prove it, where she had run into a branch one summer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z While kids were having fun enjoying the summer, I was packing my clothes and belongings into boxes and wondering where we were going to end up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I certainly did look forward to the three months we spent every summer in Peitaiho on the ocean north of Peking. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Scott and George visited every summer for two weeks, like sleepaway camp. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I mean, we’ve only been here since this summer so it doesn’t quite feel like home to me yet, but...” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z There’s no one else around, though you can hear the cries of kids playing in their back gardens, taking advantage of the last of the summer sunshine before they get called in for dinner. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summers morning, the sensations of a child standing at a window, the curve and dip of a swallows flight over a pool of water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “So you do this every summer? Fight monsters? Save the world? Don’t you ever get to do just, you know, normal stuff?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Outside the curtained window was the summer heat of Madrid. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z By the end of the summer, three hundred thousand people were said to have died. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It was already the middle of summer, so she had us plant radishes since they grow fast. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That summer, Charlie and I took a few walks to the pagoda together, and climbed the Master Oak for kicks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Each turn of the crank took a year of effort, summer, spring, fall and winter, and my tears splashed into the dust as the bucket climbed out of the earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What I saw around me that summer in Harlem was what I had always seen; nothing had changed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Instead of staying in the house or finding a nearby apartment, Candice and her mother had moved to Lambert for the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The scar Luke had given me last summer was fading, but I could still see it—a white asterisk-shaped wound where his pit scorpion had stung me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But another visit that summer causes serious trouble. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But ever since that first lunch at school, we’ve sat at the summer table together every day, just the two of us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Zizmo follows the shoreline until he comes to a gap in the road where boats launch in summer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Despite the long summer of work, he found himself even poorer than he had been the previous year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Grapevines spread on wire to create a roof and block the summer sun. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Jack had found it last summer, and he’d presented it to her like it was a palace. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The gates of a summer estate opening wide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, you did. You made choices all summer.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There is an eerie, expectant feeling to a schoolroom in the summer. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Anyway, a hundred visitors a week for three campsites at the height of summer hardly seems overwhelming. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But even the Fairy Queen was not invulnerable, for even she could be wholly changed by the smile of a handsome young man on a hot summer day. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But Welles and his team attracted enough listeners during the summer for CBS to extend the program with thirteen new fall episodes. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Tyler was Patty’s brother, a girl who’d nearly gotten Toby killed last summer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It's a beautiful summer night, warm without a breath of wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “But I drink Chiron’s right It won’t be until the summer. Luke will need time to regain his strength.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The building was hot and stifling in the summer—and bitter cold in the winter. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “He did math for an hour,” his brother Mark says of Langan’s summer routine in high school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Used to climb this very tree, y'know, when Nick was a wee nipper. One summer, we built a tree house. Wonder if it's still up there..." Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She travels each summer to see her grandmother in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, a beach resort town east of San Juan. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Not burning hot like the middle of summer, but warm enough for me to not need a coat. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z All during the summer, all across America, the highways filled up with the migrating families of the American military. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She might have married and settled on a more conventional path if she had not spent several weeks each summer visiting her cousin Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A summer when I got lost in time, when I rarely knew what day it was, rarely cared about the hour. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful summer day with blue sky and plenty of sunshine. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Next summer, Nathan thought, he was going to be twelve, and then thirteen. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z How could they ever earn enough money to give their daughters pretty clothes and send them to Europe during the summers so they wouldn't get bored? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z If there are fireflies this summer, they do not come down the rue Vauborel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z To have winter in your home and year-round summer outside. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “She doesn’t remember like half our summer fifteen.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z As they approached the brook, toward the big tree in the hollow of whose roots they would make their summer home, the children ran ahead, shouting and laughing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I order inner tubes, sunglasses, and beach towels for summer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It had been a long, hot summer in B-block— a long, low wave of attacks and reprisals, and then lockdowns to let everything cool off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I thought back on our summer, I could see it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I know this isn’t easy living. But I do appreciate you spending your summer with me, shinalf. I cherish our time together.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The start of the summer term would normally have meant that Harry was training hard for the last Quidditch match of the season. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Low to the ground, folded together with her breasts against her thighs, she wore woven sandals and a red muslin summer dress, its narrow straps running over her shoulders. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1804, history had pretty much passed them by. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Then you better keep that. But what are you doing this summer?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He had an orneriness year-round, but especially in the summer, when he worked his peach orchards daylight to dusk. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hussey continued to take meteorological readings as the summer began to fade. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “I’m here to to read to you...every day...for the rest of the summer...if you like,” Turner said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Funny how you remember some days more than others, but I still remember one summer morning there. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Mom, Dad, Lily, and I officially moved in at the beginning of the summer, when Gram finally told us how sick she was. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes in the summers, a long time ago, my people had lived here. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the time a rat had died inside our apartment wall in New York in the middle of the summer. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z My mom had died the summer before and I missed her. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The most they could do, however, was to lock away Harry’s spellbooks, wand, cauldron, and broomstick at the start of the summer break, and forbid him to talk to the neighbors. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I felt like I was floating in my daddy’s world of summer, and hide-and-seek, and fishing when I opened the paper and read the greeting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z We live in North Carolina, and storms happen all the time in the spring and summer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I knew him last summer at Grand Isle,” she replied. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He hoped he played baseball, because these high glory days of summer were baseball days if any days were baseball days, with blue skies, warm seas, and high clouds lazy above the ocean horizon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z College kids, I imagined—home for the summer. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z There were a lot of thunderstorms that summer. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Many times during the summer I had thought of the “long winter months ahead” with some fear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d never had a harder year of school or been more relieved for a summer holiday to come around than this last one. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “The first summer I was here was the summer of ninety-five, when Chicago had a heat wave that killed hundreds of people, and of course the hospital wasn’t air-conditioned,” Reilly remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She explained how she had been permitted to go to summer school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It began near the end of canning season, which other kids probably called “summer.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her attack almost succeeded in turning me against myself, but after I thought about my last month I said, “You’re wrong. I’m having a very interesting summer.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Don’t seem right that it’s a beautiful summer day, with the sun shining to beat the band. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a crisp, fresh day for summer, the first respite after a week of unendurable heat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On a Sunday near the end of that summer, Elizabeth dressed him in his best clothes and took him to Florence’s house. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Come summer he gets dozy and hibernates through to autumn, and I can speak a bit better. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z On this cool summer night, all he wanted to know was if Z could get him some information and if he could take on a project down in the holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Tally realized that she hadn’t visited her parents since the week of summer break, when she’d mostly been anxious to get back to hanging out with Shay full-time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z This way they all knew she was angry, and all summer long, every night, they listened. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Perhaps you might agree to come for the summer, just at first,’ he had written, ‘to see how you and your boy settle, and how we all of us rub along.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Work my butt off all summer hauling traps? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Dalton and his younger sister are regular flyers, visiting their dad, who lives up in Portland, a few times a year—Christmas, Easter, most of the summer, and every other Thanksgiving. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z One summer she had us create our own gardens. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And then Billy was a middle-aged optometrist again, playing hacker’s golf this time—on a blazing summer Sunday morning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time during this whole trip, I’m able to sit back and take in the wide blue-orange sky and warm summer air. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He rubs my palm with his thumb like he did two summers ago beneath the stars. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I was beaten that night and told that over the summer I would have to relearn all the lessons in which I had done poorly. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The summer before first grade, seven years ago. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to have some fun before he settled in with them for the summer. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1945, as Europeans picked through the rubble of their ruined cities and burned-out farms, Soviet and American soldiers eyed each other warily. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I really don’t get the coffee thing and I especially don’t get the coffee thing during the summer and I 100 percent don’t get the coffee thing when you’re already having a hard time sleeping. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Since it was summer, no one would need science lessons—POP. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I knew we had been growing apart since summer, but I had been able to blame that on Caroline. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all the people walking are Black—not by a mile—but it’s still the biggest group of Black people I’ve ever been with, even counting our big family reunion in Atlanta last summer. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Masterson’s Tomb is an escapist’s dream in the summer, but it’s a realist’s nightmare in December. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Jamie and Dylan are college students, camp counselors teaching in a summer program: Wilderness Adventures. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I cannot remember being at a loose end here, in the summer holidays when I was your age.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z One night that summer, when I was lying in bed and everyone else was asleep, I heard the front door open and the sound of someone muttering and stumbling around in the darkness. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the summer, it feels like the entire laundromat is the inside of a dryer, and it's painful. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But after the hot days of summer, it feels good. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The first thing he saw was a photograph of himself, taken the summer before on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, where he had gone diving. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z After Josh graduated from Hampshire College, he and his girlfriend, Safron, joined us in Cambridge, England, where the Courters had arranged to exchange homes with a British family the summer before I started high school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “That was the best summer ever,” Styx said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a hot, dry summer night, typical of the month of Saratan in Kabul. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z When school was in, I had to be upstairs by the time the streetlights came on, but summer, I could hang pretty late as long as I was out front. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z This was the same summer, too, when people I loved started to die. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I am to go home for the rest of the summer—although it’s no longer the home I’ve always known as Mama is building a new house on the main road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, we brought pictures from last summer in Montauk,” Dad said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But, I wonder if my friends’ summer was as bad as mine. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “And Dad thinks I put the bullet in the gun. It’s not fair and now my whole summer has been ruined.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The invasion at Redwall continued throughout the night, the whole scene illuminated by a bright summer moon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It had been a mild winter, and summer came early to the mountains. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That is, until he left for college at the beginning of the summer. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “This summer he shall know,” Samuel answered wisely. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim grinned, then clapped Dad on the shoulder and said no righteous God would deprive a man of homemade strawberry ice cream on a hot summer afternoon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The next day after summer school I ran into Amber walking with her friends. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The llano was beautiful in the early morning, beautiful before the summer sun of August burned it dry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The clearest summer morning could end in a downpour. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z If he came back to Nali’s next summer, would Pond be able to teach him more songs so that he, too, could make it snow? Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z By the late summer of 1857, the first hybrid peas had bloomed in the abbey garden, in a riot of purple and white. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Would I be stuck inside my house all summer, forced to listen to their voices and laughter echoing throughout my own house? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The summer days passed while they talked about going to find Moon Orchid’s husband. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had light brown hair that turned blond in the summer, and she never wore any makeup except deep red lipstick. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, Yale and everything...You know I don’t care about that stuff, right? I don’t care if you’re in summer school.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “You could say you have a summer job. At, like, a camp or something,” Colin offered. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Nearly every day now I run ten or fifteen miles, barely clothed, my skin exposed to the California winter rain and wind or the summer sun of late afternoon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like in the summer at our picnics,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z It was still the loveliest summer weather, and there had been chicken for dinner, so that Merlyn had gone off to the edge of their shooting-ground and sat down under a tree. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s spending the summer doing Outward Bound, so he’ll have even more muscles when I see him next!” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z My father says the summer heat in Florida is like the devil’s oven, and that’s about right. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z By the summer following passage of the law, nine thousand blacks in Dallas County had been registered to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Ada Taylor said that my friendship with Lucas Cader was probably the only thing getting me through all the madness of that summer. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Habiba and I have known each other since our summers playing at the mosque together when we were in elementary school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Annabeth frowned Last summer, before my quest, I’d visited the.strange spirit that lived in the Big House attic and it had given me a prophecy that came true in ways I’d never expected. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z My operating the crane was one of a hundred disputes between Dad and Shawn that Shawn won that summer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The people in the world who could be selfish in the summer of 1942 were a small band, and I'm glad we took advantage of it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And so everything is new and brave, red poppies and good food, cigarettes and summer breeze. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll live without a root beer float until next summer,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z For one thing, he’d just finished his first year of law school, and normally we only hired second-year students for summer positions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By early summer, walk- ing turned to a gentle canter, first a mile, then two, then three. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every town does theirs on different nights all summer long. So you can always find them somewhere.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z There was one condition that must have been a matter of chagrin for the arsonists—all the farm animals were turned out to pasture during the summer nights and so escaped a fiery death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of the summer, the firm organized a series of events and outings for its associates, sending around sign-up sheets for anyone who wanted to go. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the summer they were bathed in water from the spring. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z By summer's end, Gerhard leaves for mandatory Reich Labor Service, where he's stationed outside Paris, France. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z During the slow march of summer days I was aware, as one is aware of a drum steadily beating across a lake, of something unspooling itself in the bodies of my campmates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She had packed so carefully: six skirts—three for summer and three for winter. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I remembered all those days this past summer when I’d craved a fresh breeze. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Deep underground, our home stayed warm in winter and cool in summer. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He usually does missionary work in other countries during the summer, but in May he twisted his ankle during a Spartan Race, so he’s keeping busy teaching us chemistry. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The wine tasted of pomegranates and hot summer days. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z During the summer of 1955 Bobby serendipitously happened upon a gathering place for chess aficionados and, in so doing, raised his game to a whole new level. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then the summer came, and the one year point from when we’d first arrived. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We go into different bodegas for water, Icees, chips, sunflower seeds, and it’s all as easy as the warm summer breeze. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The king's armor was a deep green, the green of leaves in a summer wood, so dark it drank the candlelight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She put on her old clothes from the preceding summer, which were almost too small, wrapped herself in a shawl, and tiptoed out so as not to wake the rest of the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom had asked me over and over that summer and fall as my skirts got shorter, my heels higher, my lipstick darker, my heart angrier and angrier at her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z This left a sizable stack of newspapers sitting on his desk beside his snowy owl, Hedwig: one for each of the days Harry had spent at Privet Drive this summer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1964, hundreds of black adults were standing in line outside the Dallas County Courthouse on registration days, waiting to be admitted so they could register. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z We had some good parties that summer when we got back to Earth. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer the dust devils of the llano are numerous. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But for most of the summer, my brother thought all his friends would go without him to Knoxville College, and he would have to get a job and stay home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z October moved further away with every step Tristran took; he felt as if he were walking into summer. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In summer I sometimes come outside at night with my torch and my planisphere, which is two circles of plastic with a pin through the middle. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Chester hadn’t done nearly as much chirping as usual this summer because he was living in New York, but tonight he played to his heart’s content. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Her burns healed quickly but she exhibited selective amnesia regarding the events of the previous summer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Exactly,” Ernie said, shaking his head as if just as disappointed in Genie’s lack of summer protocol. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the summer I go down south to my great-aunt Cecile's house. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z He had even helped her during her first breakup, at the end of summer the year before, and it felt like they’d cemented a mutual bond that couldn’t be broken by anything. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Within a few weeks, my father—who years earlier had not been able to guess my age within half a decade—knew about my classes, my boyfriend, my summer job. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Maybe the rats were hoarding supplies for the summer drought up there. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Someone had been in the same work gang with his father for four months last summer on the Walker county road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On a college visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge the summer before senior year, Sasha met a fellow fan of the intricately plotted web comic Homestuck on a subway platform. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One night, summer fifteen, Gat tossed pebbles at my bedroom window. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “You’re at least aware, I hope, that it’s summer out there?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z With the same tenacity they used to bring Zlata and the rest of the world to Room 203, they devised a plan that would take us to Europe the following summer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And after spending the entire summer cleaning houses with Amá, I’m almost happy to be back in school, working my brain instead of my hands. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She chipped her tooth this past summer at some kind of jock camp. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z So during the summer before her senior year of high school, my parents sent my sister off to Los Angeles—otherwise known as the plastic surgery mecca of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In Huntington, where she spent her summers, she felt even worse. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One evening that summer, just before school started again, Jake called me on the black phone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And the great summer storms that came through these parts that blackened the sky and tore up deep-rooted oaks made him feel uncomfortably small and helpless. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z By that last summer Mitt was thick with them all. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was empty now, but sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children and parents who would play there above the lake in summer before half-running, half-stumbling down the slope to the welcoming water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Over the summer, I went to Agent for a back tattoo. I wanted something big and dramatic. So he drew up this elab-orate artwork, with swirls and lettering and then ...” She stopped. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z For the first time all summer, I believed it. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Not since that summer,” she says, and retreats with her vulture face and vulture fingernails into the redolent dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1944, reports were circulating that the war had swung in favor of the Allies, mainly the Americans and the British to the west and the Soviets in the east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z One summer day in 1892, when Tom was eleven, his father hurried out with the bloodhounds: a family man had been gunned down while riding his horse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I noticed they didn’t come over this summer as much as they used to. But I thought it was because you were all in different summer camps.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Taking Control Sometime during the summer of 44 BCE, Ptolemy XIV died. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Her watercolors of speckled mushrooms and bonneted girls were hung with pride in the family room, and her skill was encouraged with private lessons and summer visits to sketching camp. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He wanted the words to make a cloudless blue sky, pale with a summer sun pressing across wide and empty horizons. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in the summer, Fornatee’s father had been in the backseat of a car driven by a friend when they were rear-ended by an out-of-control truck. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “In the great burrow they used to open tunnels for the summer and close them for the winter. We can dig another run on the evening side tomorrow and pick up the breeze.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re lying side by side, in their summer clothes, and sinking down through the earth, which is hard but transparent, like ice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was going to be summer soon, so you could feel that freedom coming on too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer rolls behind us like a hot tar spreader. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The familiar woods lay ahead, their leaves swaying in a summer breeze. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Mom came home around four o’clock from her summer job, Dad came out of his lab in the basement, I helped in the kitchen and we had a proper sit-down meal. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The sun was just beginning its long summer afternoon journey toward the Manhattan building tops. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But something I couldn’t see or understand was holding me together so that I didn’t completely break and stop working, like my cell phone at the beginning of summer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The roads out that way had been muddy all summer, and he didn’t want to get stuck that day. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The man sat with his head tilted toward the window so that the summer early-evening light outlined the scars on his face. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “But as of this morning, he is staying with me for the summer. Imagine my surprise and excitement.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He’s just out-learning her: he’s putting in a few solid months of learning during the summer while she watches television and plays outside. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Seasons passed, fall and winter and spring and summer. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z All through June the writing course stretched before me like a bright, safe bridge over the dull gulf of the summer. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1949, the only American agents capable of uncovering the USSR's true motives were hunkered down in a closely guarded office in Arlington Hall. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I felt flat, wiped out from the trial and everything, sad that my summer was over, and, because I wasn’t sure how he’d react, a little worried to go back home and face Dad. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The summer world grew and swelled and ripened. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “New library opens Friday, just in time for summer vacation,” Kyle’s mom mumbled, reading her computer screen. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z For right now, since summer camp at the Bureau is still canceled until next year, I’ve decided to put my thoughts and energy into something else. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Afternoon is my second-best time to go up in the hills, though; morning’s the best, especially in summer. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dudley had spent most of the summer in the kitchen, his piggy little eyes fixed on the screen and his five chins wobbling as he ate continually. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Once I heard the pattern, I couldn’t stop hearing it, and I spent the rest of the summer looking and listening for patterns in other random sources—the wind, clothes tumbling in the dryer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Some would sleep while the shelling, futile, echoed along the summer roads; some would wind stalks of grass around their fingers; some would mutter to friends. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was as though they felt it was especially unfair that it should strike one of the sixteen-year-olds, one of the few young men who could be free and happy in the summer of 1942. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it was perfectly fine to go to Aunt Maureen’s for the summer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But more likely he’s just looking for me to tell him he did nothing wrong when he left me two summers ago. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “So,” she begins, “you know that Michael and I tried out for the summer production at the Cape Playhouse, right?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Earlier in the summer, the servants had covered all the windows with bamboo curtains to drive out the sun. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite its name, the school accepted older children for its summer camp, and the program provided a place for Bobby to go once the school year ended. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The final week of sixth grade and the start of summer break creeping up mean prime relocation time. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I know Reid, but how is Reid a summer name?” she asked. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He had been looking at the apple tree by the woodshed, trying to see the tiny green fruits that would grow all summer until they became apples. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He liked me too, and we were inseparable for one whole summer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I’d sacrificed a social life, free time, and my summers to make myself a well-rounded student who would be accepted into an elite university. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z His voice was like thunder, but the warm rolling of a welcomed summer storm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “My sister and I will both be in school this summer.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Right now it’s enough to say that despite everything that happened that summer, I remain tender toward the bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z During the summer of his junior year he committed what he called, in his memoir, “the first really dishonest act of my life.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The countryside speeds by, fields of blues and yellows and reds and greens, the patches and swirls of summer. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mario was very happy too, but of course he had thought all summer that Chester was a very unusual person. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She asked a few of the kids how they were and how their summer had been. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Still, it was challenging enough on a hot summer’s day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Eager to see what Indian Creek looked like now, I drove over there on a summer day and parked in the lot. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe,” said Mr. Option, “you could read this over the summer, and then we could talk about it together when school begins.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z By that summer she had a husband picked out for Tessie, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “She always knows what to say. Thanks, Ms. Keaton. Have a good summer.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He was a lad of less than twenty summers, with a fine noble face and a sense of humour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t have any summer clothes to bring,” Sam says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She looked around and saw she was near this house where she had gone so many times in the summer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “She is holy,” Jeanne said, and the sharpness of her voice cut through William’s teasing like a scythe through summer hay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z "Not the whole summer. Just the last five days. Remember we went to Bar Harbor? And we swam at the pond?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z During that long summer I’d been over and over the various arguments, all the pros and cons, and it was no longer a question that could be decided by an act of pure reason. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Gat in a worn green T-shirt from two summers ago. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He, alone among men, could put a pack upon Buck’s back in the summer travelling. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hazy, gorgeous summer twilight and the gravel parking lots were packed with trucks but none of the trucks was Mr. Hatch’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Together each summer, Mama Lessie and I worked at the vacation Bible schools in Granddaddy’s two churches, as well as other churches that had only occasional guest pastors and no full-time pastors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I had also started babysitting every Wednesday afternoon for the woman who ran the summer day camp. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the summer Mama took us to a farmers’ market to buy fabric to make new curtains for our bedroom. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Then on a day so like summer that the apple trees were tricked into fruit, there came another visitor. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In these long summer days, his uncle Finn, Junior Haskell, and Joplin, Missouri, all seemed like a faint memory that was no longer nipping at his heels. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Over the summer, Audrey and I started sitting on opposite ends of the couch, our feet meeting in the middle. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Now take a look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And he still wore the star from that time pinned to the lapel of the three-piece woolen suit he had been wearing, summer and winter, for the last thirty years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No starving, no dying from the summer sickness, no getting shot full of arrows.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The last time I saw James was during the summer when our whole class had to meet up at the school to have our senior pictures taken. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Every August, on the last day of summer session, you get a bead for surviving another year. I’ve been here longer than most of the counselors, and they’re all in college.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She had been terribly grateful that summer for Madame Williams’s indifference; the woman had simply not seemed to see that Elizabeth, overnight, had become an old woman and was half mad with fear and grief. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Okay, so I have. Seven half-bloods shall answer the call I wonder who they’ll be. We re going to have so many new faces next summer.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “It’s summer. It’s like a hundred degrees in Texas.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z All the different bushes, so pretty in summer, were brown and broken from the long winter. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Later, when the cut bush was dried, we set fire to it and watched the thick smoke rise to the blue summer sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Your letter made me feel like one of the other moms who can afford to send their kids to summer camp. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z ONE DAY in the summer of 1965, we discovered some fat glistening on our porridge at breakfast and chunks of fresh meat with our pap at supper. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the summer I am ten, funk is in every single song that comes on the cool black radio stations. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z That was the summer of her automobile accident. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z On the teacher’s recommendation, they were interested in having Petey take a coveted summer intern position. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure, but I decided to spend the rest of my summer being one. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Fact: For the first time all summer, everything was really all good. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then she said, “I heard a lot of stories about my mama this summer. I had a good time in Mobile.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As a last touch, she slipped in a tiny caterpillar or “summer bird” to help bring her composition to life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One-fourth of the time, or 91 days, is taken up by summer and other vacations, and two-sevenths of the year, 104 days, is weekend. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I might have stuck myself on the mountaintop working hard all summer if it hadn’t been for her.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “She spent much more time here last summer than she has before,” Lore said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Little girls waltzed with each other, round and round on the warm summer sidewalks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a perfect night and there was still some coolness in the desert breeze, the heat of the summer was still a step away. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was on my summer reading list, and so far, I had not been able to get past the third chapter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Even the tiresome call of the cuckoo in the walnut tree was only a pleasant sound of summer. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Yes, there were always the predictable kidnappings and summer love triangles, but a good show could always surprise you with something as simple as the discovery of an underground city. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When Boo had mentioned a council, Aru had imagined stern summer camp counselors...not the very people from the myths and tales that had been crammed into her head since she was a toddler. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “And get it back to Olympus before the summer solstice, in ten days.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The kids around him were telling one another about all the fun stuff they’d done that summer—trips to Disneyland, camping in Yosemite National Park, or swimming at the beach. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I used to hate rain in the summer because it ruined vacation time. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Like waking from a summer nap, feeling lazy and sluggish, the world collecting itself around me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “He moved out over the summer. My grandparents always lived with us, but now it’s just my grandmother. He left her, after fifty years.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z There we stood on the train platform amidst the chaos, me in my flowered nightgown and my brother in a baby blue summer coat that nearly touched the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He’d almost drowned last summer in the Sea of Monsters, and he couldn’t swim very well with his goat hooves. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I mean, I could see myself there, starting from the moment I stepped off the plane into the warm Australian summer. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Why would he fight for a boy who’s moving back to Georgia when he’s had Hudson sitting two feet away from him all summer? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Give us—give us the nicest summer day you can remember! You can’t say that’s hard, since it belongs to you!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I’ve known him from the very first day I started at Pagoda Pizza last summer. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Five hours ago, before he knocked on Guitar’s door, he had stood on the top step, dripping in the summer rain that still patted the window, imagining that the drops were tiny steely picks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fire and fury of the summer of 1940, Maddie sat in a tower of iron and concrete taking bearings over the telephone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “No, no, silly boy,” said Fleur with a tinkling laugh, “I mean next summer, when we — but do you not know?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Tomorrow, on the first day of summer, as the sun was setting, he would finish his wall, and then he would leave Asgard with his wages. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z This summer with more do-overs than I can count gives me hope that the four of us will figure it out. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Lori, because of her good grades and art portfolio, had been accepted into a government-sponsored summer camp for students with special aptitudes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I was so frightened, and at the mercy of so many conundrums, that inevitably, that summer, someone would have taken me over; one doesn’t, in Harlem, long remain standing on any auction block. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Over the summer, they had grown until they outweighed her by a great deal, though they still were bashful and hung back, just beyond the reach of her fingertips, as she spoke to them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z All through the late spring and early summer the water rose and at last it lay like a great sea, lovely and idle, mirroring cloud and moon and willows and bamboo whose trunks stood submerged. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In late July, Aunt Pearl went to the Elversen's summer house and left the girls in Queens with Dorothy and Wilson. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z We filed our appeal in the Court of Criminal Appeals that summer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z An Yi had been sent away to spend the summer with her grandparents in Shandong, away from Shanghai’s turbulence. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily this would have been so—if the summer, the gypsy days, had not intervened. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Last summer she had met a boy while we were on vacation in Nida. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They would not have to come back to the apartment all summer long. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He lived this way through the turn of summer, and only the following October did he reach a town big enough to have a regular bus station. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z We had packed up the Wildcat and had driven down to Alabama so my sisters and I could stay there for the summer. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I figured it would keep till next summer,” Miss Love put in real quick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It’s a perfect summer day, and the beach is crowded. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z During the summer she would take us to the beach at low tide to dig for clams. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Ito paid Papá more than us because Papá was a better picker and because he had worked for Ito for several summers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z And now, as a summer flower shatters in September, it was finished. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On summer mornings at sunup, San Francisquito Canyon is one of the most perfect places on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z One summer we made a museum in the glass conservatory. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Momma bought two bolts of cloth each year for winter and summer clothes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On summer nights, Shin and some of the other small boys in his village would sneak into the orchard just north of the cluster of concrete dwellings where they lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We walk to Two Scoops and take in the sights of summer. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I step out into the hot air of late afternoon and summer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I mix up her summer with my own. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1936 he was twenty-six and in the twelfth year of a failing career as a jockey and part-time prizefighter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent the summer doing the things I had dreamed about. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That summer was the summer when all of the bees came out of the walls of those suburbs and went crazy, and people couldn’t figure it out at all. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1964 “long, hot summer” riots in major cities across the United States, the socially disinherited black ghetto youth were always at the forefront. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He would be, I thought to myself, a good summer mentee. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z These are assumed to be Florida birds, returning to home territory after a summer in the North. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Apparently, for fun, kids like the ones at Chumley enjoy trapeze arts, yacht sailing, Formula One go-kart racing, summering in the winter, horseback riding, and fashion accessorizing. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Before the summer she would alternate between kindness and malice, with periods of indifference; but now she’s harsher, more relentless. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Not so much as I could wish, sir; but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z When I was younger than you, me and June and May—and April, too, because she was still alive then—all of us would visit our grandmother for the whole summer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I can use it to get her back to Orlando, and she can get a summer job and live in an apartment till college starts, and at least we’ll have the summer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He’d like to be outside with Petey in the rain, one of those warm summer rains that was just hard enough to drench you, but not hard enough to chase you indoors. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z So it was with great purpose that, as soon as he sent his volcano book in to his publisher, Charles turned back to the thirty-five-page species draft he had written two summers before at Maer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aren’t you the one who wrote on her back with sunscreen and treated her like trash all summer? Now you want a favor? I don’t think so.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It was almost four months ago that the door was sealed shut between Hilly and me, a door made of ice so thick it would take a hundred Mississippi summers to melt it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The sweet summer air played against his cheek. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Now what, I thought, seeing her standing there, smiling in her tight-fitting summer dress; a large young woman who reeked with Christmas Night perfume who now came close. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He hopped up on the garden table where his mum used to drink Pimm’s in the summer, and he lifted himself up and over the back fence. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Just for a week. Then I have to go to summer school because my grades aren’t so good. I’m going to go to Africa and study animals when I get big.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z So a lot of us played ball with him in hopes of picking up skills over the summer. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The weight of his words and the weather and everything else from that Mississippi summer squeezed all the air out of me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z They covered me with squares of flannel in the dead heat of summer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Staring at the house in the full heat of summer, it was scarcely credible that the world had so swiftly fallen into confusion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “The great American writer who shot himself last summer with a loaded rifle!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She would look around the walls of the room, which they had decorated together last summer with a border of marching ducks and rabbits playing trumpets and drums. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Happens in the summer when the water starts to warm up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He would carry messages to Parliament, conduct his own business, and likely return to New York by the summer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If she worked full time all summer...She ran her mental calculations again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mother was all cooperation in helping me to shop for summer clothes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s surrounded by the same bunch of girls she’s been hanging around with all spring and so far this summer instead of me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The heat was intense, like a summer day, and on the heels of the heat came a stink that made Ophie want to cover her nose. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z As we revolved on our towels that summer, self-basting, the Object’s freckles darkened, going from butterscotch to brown. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But after that summer I did not cut them any more. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the sidewalks burn hot all summer long. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z It was in that summer, the summer of their twelfth year, the summer of the beautiful black boys, that they became skittish, frightened and bold—all at the same time. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They would need them to be bigger for the summer camp they planned to start. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Besides, Jamie will go back to California before the summer is over, and what am I going to do then? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z "On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was Sunday and it was summer, and the town seemed pretty much the same. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who could forget a death ride to Red Hook with thirty other eight-year-olds in the middle of summer?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z These are, after all, precisely the kind of lower-income kids who Alexander identified as losing ground over the long summer vacation, so KIPP’s response is simply to not have a long summer vacation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Even in the hottest part of summer we’d have to put on long clothes to protect our arms and legs—and forget about having company over. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I was glad of it, I had almost caught the rhythm of it, the dancing, clicking jangle of it during the summer. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Since last summer, Grover had stopped trying to disguise himself as human. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Jerome had the smile of a boy who, on a summer night, had gone all the way. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "The roses will bloom in early summer," 1 told Sarah. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z He works this summer often in a frenzy, with what he calls a high yellow note. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And the summer afternoon Antonapoulos went downstairs naked to get the paper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I tried to focus on the projects I found most meaningful, including my efforts to recruit a new and more diverse crop of summer associates. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Frightful envisioned a dashing stream shaded by a majestic forest, the summer home of the northern waterthrush. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z No matter that it was a relatively warm summer morning: if you had lived in Milagro all your life, you started a fire in your combination stove first thing after checking out the sun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve been thinking more about what we talked about the other day. Maybe joining the NAACP, or going South to help next summer.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “It’s been a busy summer for the dive team. But I’m making meatballs for dinner.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Would we be living forever in the summer heat and winter wind of Owens Valley? Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured my heart and ribs blown from glass, tiny air bubbles throughout, like in the documentary about Mexican glassblowers I’d watched with Mom that summer. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z But the real last day of summer was the last Monday in August. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z This was not the castle he remembered from the summer of his youth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Let me talk to his sister. She’s home from college this summer. I can probably convince her to get Milo to lay off.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I want to ask her everything that happened summer fifteen, make her tell me the stories Mummy doesn’t want to talk about or doesn’t know. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Traveling from Tijuana had made her dislike Brussels sprouts; now she hated summer squash as well! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “It isn’t fair she should have the use of it for the whole summer, and us have to do without.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He enrolled in a couple of education courses at Temple University the summer after his graduation, having taken none at La Salle, and was granted an “emergency teaching certificate.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z On some warm day later in the spring, when Timothy was strong again, they would move to the summer house down by the brook. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Taisin was falling in love with her—the emotions were as clear and hot as a summer sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I could probably have nailed one corner of it into the floor and disappeared within, performing all of Fiddler on the Roof as if under a summer stock tent. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z If this had happened two summers ago, Eleanor would have run and banged on the door herself. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z As they had two years before, young men in slacks and shirtsleeves and young women in flouncy summer dresses danced out of the cabin and onto the decks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All summer they dug in their underwear to save their dresses. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He had always thought of the crypts as cold, and so they seemed in summer, but now as they descended the air grew warmer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Come on, I can’t go a whole summer without being sizzled!” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “This is the summer you dug your own grave!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Do you remember at the start of summer, you told me that I should go after my own happiness?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe,” Marly heard Daddy say to Mother one warm summer night as they sat over their plates of fine little bones, “it’s still possible for a family to live entirely off the land.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z One sweltering summer afternoon, I attended a Harlem street rally which contained a lot of these teen-agers in the crowd. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Cows grazed, stinking of sweet dung and addled by summer blackflies. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After the heat of the summer, the year turned toward the fall, the nights began to grow cooler. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After spending the next summer at Folsom, he introduced the site to the world at a major scientific conference. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After the doctors warned that Garfield's recuperation could be slow, the family decided that the two youngest children should remain in Ohio with relatives throughout the summer. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And so, over the summer, the family moved to an apartment in Tacoma. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was one strange thing about her that I found fascinating: She always had a delicate mist of perspiration across the bridge of her nose, winter or summer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Mark had gotten so into mountain climbing that summer. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Molly’s dream of a quiet summer evaporated, for the house was desperately in need of rehabilitation—“an old wreck, one of the oldest around, and built without benefit of architect” she recollected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They crowded around, a summer program advertised on the front and back of their yellow T-shirts, laughing and talking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the aftermath of that meaningless scrimmage in the summer twilight in Lubbock, Trapper envisioned a definite fate for the Boobie Miles who had been the dazzling jewel of the Watermelon Feed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anti-intruder jinxes on all of them. Security’s been tightened a hundredfold this summer.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The cumulative effect of the sound was that of a mild winter wind or the roll of a summer surf. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I thought of a different time last summer, under Mount St. Helens, when Annabeth thought I was going to die and she kissed me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Lindsey spent her summers with her father—he was working some construction thing near Roundup—and the school year with her mother and stepfather in Seattle. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “The scented candles that are supposed to smell like summer night never smell this way. They always smell like scary-guy cologne.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “I had a girlfriend, two summers ago” “I know. I knew all along.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In spring and summer he had gathered data in Vermont and Maine, and in autumn he moved to a university north of Boston, where we lived, to write a short book about his discoveries. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z That was the summer that Palmer’s family went on a vacation trip. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Though I got to be real, I would’ve probably ended up in summer school even if Hudson was never in the picture. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The next morning, Mom and I headed to the farmers market, which we did most weekends during the summer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Once a low-key summer resort, Nantucket is rapidly turning into their private preserve, joining the ranks of other enclaves like Palm Beach, Aspen, the Hamptons, and Sun Valley. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z "I like it in the summer. Like when I went this past summer, it was real nice. But I'm not gonna live there all the time." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The possibility of a summer intensive on the East Coast. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Bertha told me a story about when she and Mama were little girls and went to a lake one summer. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In the summer he liked to get started early on chores before the sun blazed down on him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “No, I — how did you know it woke me up over the summer?” said Harry, astonished. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I had to go to the storage unit and get some things. Thought you might wanna do some reading this summer.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She released a yell of pure joy, felt the summer wind kiss her face and play with her hair. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Early spring was not a bit more amazing than early summer, because the big pushing went on and on. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I somewhat live here, at least for the summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z What kid in New Hampshire isn’t ready for a little summer in February? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow during the course of the evening things had shifted, and it was just like it had been when they had ridden together in the hot summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Even by the end of the second summer after spraying, only meager quantities of aquatic insects had reestablished themselves, and on one stream — formerly rich in bottom fauna — scarcely any could be found. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Just like band camp,” she joked, though my summer conservatory program is nothing like American Pie. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Camilla sent me three postcards that summer and called me twice. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “And at the end of the summer, buy her a bus ticket to New York City.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I understand that you’re upset, and I don’t blame you. You worked hard all summer in that garden.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In the summer, the older people of the neighborhood liked to sit on benches and scold the teenagers who cruised by on dirt bikes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The partners at the top firms graduated from the same Ivy League schools, attended the same churches, and summered in the same oceanside towns on Long Island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It all started on a blazing hot day in the middle of summer. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Then as autumn flares with the false heat of summer before it dies into the winter, so with the quick love Wang Lung had for Pear Blossom. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The air was gentle as though a summer day had lingered beyond its season, but Gwydion’s words chilled him like a sudden cold wind. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Much of the island is submerged during the rainy season, and even in the dry summer pieces of the mazy shoreline are constantly calving off like icebergs and falling into the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Solitary bucks and unmated rabbits who are wandering do this for quite long periods, especially in summer. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ain’t bothered no woman last summer or last fall either,” Bigger said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Going to stay with Jack for the summer was not punishment for me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Last summer, she had decided that a dragon’s life was worth the same as a human’s. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z You might remember it looking alive as a hive late in summer. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Then, last summer at a friend’s house, we played spin the bottle after a bunch of us admitted we were spin-the-bottle virgins. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Sunday evening, July 28 Last night in the capital Until today, I was planning to go back to Ojo de Agua with Mama since my summer session is also over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom spent the whole summer in England, taking care of my grandmother. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1844, while Charles Darwin was writing his first essay on evolution, Galton left England to travel to Egypt and Sudan—the first of many trips he would take to Africa. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Maybe it would burn, but she doubted that; it was lush summer growth, tensile vines and green leaves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tori used to bring me during the school year, but the timing hasn’t worked out so well this summer.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the late summer shortly after Tom and Eb left, there was news of another defeat for the North; it was closer to home this time—at Wilson’s Creek in Missouri. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z One day that summer the family went on an outing to the Visegrád water park. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We only lived in that house a short while, the summer before my freshman year, but it’s where we lived when we first came to town. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I haven’t even been in the same state as Ben since we said goodbye that summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She had enjoyed the summer school so much that she wanted to matriculate in the same college that fall but she had no way of raising the more than three hundred dollars required for tuition. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No one talked about the way the summer was supposed to unfold or the places we'd find ourselves in the fall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah. We used to take the Johnson boat north in summer, but we sold it when we left Minnesota. We’d go ice fishing for winter break, too. Not much of that here, I guess.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Francie noticed that some already had their summer haircut: hair cropped so short that there were nicks in the scalp where the clippers had bitten too deeply. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The highlight of her stay was her appearance, arranged by friends, at London’s popular summer concert series the Proms. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Under the summer sun, the stench of death is so strong in the village, I cover my nose and mouth with my hands and breathe only the air that fdters through my fingers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The gulf between us had been growing all summer. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z This summer isn't green; this summer is the red, white, and blue of the Union Jack. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Last summer we found an arrowhead half buried under a bush. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The winters were changeable, but the summers always were burning hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Finally, one of 'em told him that spring or fall was the time to grow lettuce, that the summer was too hot for it. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By summer 1938, the city parks have sprouted signs forbidding Jews to enter. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z A particularly poignant loss occurred in the summer of 1701, when the leaders of forty native nations convened in Montreal to negotiate an end to decades of war among themselves and the French. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the beginning of last year she’d assigned an essay and an oral presentation on a novel we’d read over the summer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Why should I go down to bathe at the very end of the season when I haven’t been in the surf all summer,” replied the woman, disagreeably. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Barry remembered their plane ride to New York the past summer. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the afternoon goes by like a warm summer breeze. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It is an unseasonably warm October day, Indian summer, Mrs. Scatcherd calls it, and we are sweltering on the platform. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks . The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to France this summer with the International Club. We have to do a report to prove we’re serious.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z All round him was the quiet summer night, luminous with starlight but paling to dawn on one side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The day the trunks arrived was a harsh reminder to Ash of how much her life had changed since the summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be no more summers for us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I wonder if it's always so quiet, or if it's because it's summer. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z One thing that happened over the summer, I grew even more. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Singer spent all of his summer vacation in the town where Antonapoulos was being kept in the asylum. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They think the same thing as most of your friends, that you were away all summer on a mission trip and then decided to transfer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Craig, for example, got a new bike one summer and rode it east to Lake Michigan, to the paved pathway along Rainbow Beach, where you could feel the breeze off the water. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Men froze by winter and sweltered in summer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the summer when the trees are in full leaf, they make a canopy over the road—which, these days, is only wide enough for one-way traffic. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get back this summer, I'm going to take you swimming and drown you. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was in this town that I’d been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “I’d like to hear more about them classes,” he rasped one morning near the end of the summer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A number of unexpected people entered my life that summer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We used to hold hands all the time, but he hadn’t touched me all summer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “You sound like my mother. I want to enjoy my summer, okay? Oh, look at her. No, don’t look look.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Underneath a huge group of flowering bushes, there is a small stone house that we made the summer before second grade, hoping fairies would move in. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The store is on schedule to open at the end of the summer. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In former times, before Robert could remember, “the house” had been a summer luxury of the Lebruns. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom, you spent the whole summer renewing your certificate.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was all gathered like one of those huge thunderheads that rises on hot summer days. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z As Bobby sat with the referee, not a word was spoken; the afternoons crept slowly into summer twilight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I have two dresses, one for summer and one for winter, and a tunic and a wool skirt, for school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “So, you talked to Brandy? She and her family staying for the summer as usual?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, I did, Mr. Stonecrop. Most every afternoon this summer.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I wore a floral summer dress Nan had helped me sew from a pattern last year. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Well, I will, if Mother doesn’t mind. I want to learn some new songs, and my children need fitting up for the summer. They are dreadfully out of order and really suffering for clothes.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl next door and I can do all my favorite summer things together: swimming at the pond, watching TV, and riding bikes. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Somehow, though, he neglected to arrange for the pilot to fly him back to civilization at summers end, and it cost McCunn his life. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembers the summer vacation she spent crisscrossing the island with her father, stopping in the plazas and main streets of every town and village from here to Guantanamo. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z All summer They have lived On candies and plums, Bunches of grapes From their tw In the San Joaquin Valley. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She also said Macon’s body rose up from the ground at the first heavy rain, and that the Butlers, or somebody, dumped it in the hunters’ cave one summer night. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z That spring and summer, once again the pattern of conflict spilled over into the parks and beaches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That's the summer I grew so fast that Grim said we'd best let the boy go barefoot, he's exploding out of his shoes. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Fiona and I don’t actually start working there until school lets out for summer, and it turns out to be a pretty fun job. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Reverend Abbott, when he had been at the church the summer before, had put barbed wire on the pipe to keep us from climbing it to get balls that went up there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z By the following summer, Mom and Dad were heading into their third year on the streets. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “If it were summer, I would swim across. I am a very strong swimmer,” he told the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Indeed, as the summer passed, I came to rely more on them—and their relationship with Josh—than on my own judgment. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I would tell my father only after the summer was over, when I could announce that, after all, I did know what ‘real work’ is like. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer I was twelve, I traveled to Ohio with my mother’s sister, who lived in Columbus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He could see her neatly made bed covered in Koosh pillows, the poster of Bar Harbor from their trip to Maine this summer, and her night table with Charlotte's Web at the ready. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z While black leaders had tried to defuse the situation after the tense marches of the summer, by that fall tempers were flaring again. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Spring passed and summer passed into harvest and in the hot autumn sun before winter comes Wang Lung sat where his father had sat against the wall. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She sent a giant box full of summer sausages, fancy cheeses, crackers, mints, and stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And yet when I search through our family photos, I can see that I never wore glasses of any kind before that summer. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But once Jefferson laid it out before him so elegantly in the summer of 1813, Adams at last possessed a target on which to focus his considerable firepower. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I don’t care that you write your Ns backward and that you sometimes read nap instead of pan, which means you have to go to summer school this year. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I could go to the five spots on the map, and even if I didn’t find her, it would be more fun than another boiling summer in Orlando. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They gathered shellfish on the rocks and ate them here, leaving the shells which after many summers had formed a mound. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “About time we had a bit of summer. Alan, this is my son, Jason.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So here she was, on a day filled with the opulence of summer, about to braid her hair for the journey home. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Oh, thank you. There are a lot of wasps about this summer." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “But, my dear papa, it is supposed to be summer; a warm day in summer. Look at the tree.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The warblers arrived, the trees turned summer green, and June burst over the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re looking through the new guide for the library’s summer reading programs. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I’ve been to lakes and stuff in the summer, but nothing that has those bright colors. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z My life changed completely when I was twelve, the summer the heavy rains came. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat on my bed and looked around like he was trying to figure out if anything had changed since the summer, which was the last time he’d been home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “That’s just another example of your sneakiness. You had a love affair all summer and got this girl with child and now I suppose you’ll sneak off.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They knew only one thing for certain: When next summer’s hot, humid weather returned, yellow fever might very well visit their homes again. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A senior partner asks if you’ll mentor an incoming summer associate, and the answer is easy: Of course you will. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Most of the residents of Hippie Cove were, like me, summer squatters who’d come to Cordova hoping to score high-paying fishing jobs or, failing that, find work in the salmon canneries. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But with the summer drawing to an end, with Tommy getting stronger, and the possibility of notice for his fourth donation growing ever more distinct, we knew we couldn’t keep putting things off indefinitely. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Especially during the summer, the streets so dog mad with heat, untempered, literally steaming with possibilities, none of them good. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On an ordinary day, we would open the windows first thing to let the hot air out of the house and let the sweet summer breeze in. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was important to him that his children experience the hard work of farming, and the family spent the summer and school holidays there. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Had to let their hired man go because of taxes, and their oldest son took the king’s coin early this summer. He’s off fighting the rebels in Menat now.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And m • although he hated to think about it, the bad air and the lack of food was probably killing off some of the people he’d been checking up on all summer. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The heat of summer had begun in earnest. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "You squeeze the head between your teeth and suck out the inside. It's marvellous. You and I will do all those things this summer, my darling," she said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z But first, the theater where Hannah and I worked for one summer. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z They were always locked at four in the afternoon in winter, at eight at night in summer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It was only September and next summer seemed a million years away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Patterson played in a band every Sunday night of the summer, in the gazebo at the end of our street with the rest of the old American Legion guys. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z One of the gasping joys of summer was my daily bath in the spring. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And that summers felt endless because I missed school. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It had been a dull summer and they were restless. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m scheming how to find a way to make five thousand dollars before the summer is over, and that about fills up my whole brain. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z On the second occasion, I remember clearly that it was a summer term and the boy who put his hand up was called Braithwaite. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z This summer he had gotten like a kid about hiding those nickels and dimes he kept for himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z As usual, Min’s work took far longer than he had predicted, and summer was merging with fall before the pieces were ready. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer they move out of the Loyer house, and soon after that, Anna finds a teaching job and moves thirty miles north of London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Remember how happy he’d be on stormy Sunday nights in the summer?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z That was the summer I taught myself how to do laundry. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Life in the barn was very good—night and day, winter and summer, spring and fall, dull days and bright days. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The wondrous peace of that sleeping summer flowed through me like a tide. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “Hey, my summer was going to be boring. This is the best offer I’ve gotten yet. So what do I look for?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was dark and stuffy after the summer evening sunlight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama’s voice whispers through the television, sweet like honeydew in summer. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z So there’s nothing to explain what happened to me that summer. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Or as normal as anything had been this summer. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The late afternoon turned to gray dusk around them as Brooklyn settled into another summer night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Yes. First off, neither of us is Christian. Second off, spending the summer chasing after idiotic roadside attractions is not going to fix anything. Third off, crucifixes remind me of her.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z We’d learned our lesson two summers earlier when we got to the market later in the morning and all of the best produce was gone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It was as perfect a summer night as the one before it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z English summer and the school holidays seem dead far away now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into fall—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful Brooklyn summer evening, the hydrant spraying water all over everything, the sidewalk, the cars, the kids. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z But everyone knew that an Indian summer could only last so long. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The crops would appear, the asparagus was ready to sprout, and for the rest of the spring and summer the garden would be too busy a place for mice to live in comfortably. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Now it was December, and to a kid Bubber’s age that was a long time from summer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then Mom tells me Taro went to stay with one of his college friends for the rest of the summer. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He’d spent half his summer repairing the battered furniture the whites had tossed out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She asked me about my summer reading and said she liked the color of my flip-flops. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The rest looked like they knew they still had a few days of summer freedom coming and they sure didn’t want to start thinking about school any more than we did. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He goes out into the fields day after day, and under the blazing summer sun, devotes himself to his canvases. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was summer when we came up, the trees were still green, now it is autumn and the night is grey and wet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking back after twenty years, I sometimes wonder if the events of that summer didn’t happen in some other dimension, a place where your life exists before you’ve lived it, and where it goes afterward. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The fighting went on all that summer and began again the next and again the next. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She came to work at the start of the summer term in June, and they had gone out together a couple of times even before Bran had to leave for Florida. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how awful this season had been, the idea of playing basketball all summer appealed to me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z And that’s how Mr. Abbas agreed to pay my sister five dollars for every mug rug she gave him at the next Bible study, which was after the summer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then the car went on, the draft building steadily up in the open door until it was drawing steadily through the car with the odor of summer and darkness except honeysuckle. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The grin melted away like snow in summer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Last summer he just appeared in Phoenix, Arizona, near Clarisse’s mom’s house.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I had never spent a summer in the suburbs before. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The summer passed, and they never got the wing reattached to the body, the fuselage mended. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “It has been a terrible summer,” said the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z My brother Richie got married at eighteen over Mommy’s objections, divorced, then entered college, and was home on summer break when he got stopped by two cops while walking down the street with a friend. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "Tensions rise every summer. It always blows over. And our shop is in a safe part of town!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Underground, inside the house, it’s cool in the winter, and mostly in the summer, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Serra is never this cold in the summer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Shaper sings—the harp soughing out through the long room like summer wind—“By deeds worth praise a man can, in any kingdom, prosper!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom didn’t believe in spending thousands of dollars for summer activities when I could have fun at home for free. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The early June dusk was soft and green, not yet with the oppressive heat of summer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The grass had been new-mown, it smelt sweet and rich, like summer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We parked ourselves at the edge of the fence, where I did my summer reading while he watched Pweto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z To Maddie it felt like the last day of school, like the summer holidays beginning. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Sometime over the summer she bumped into him at the movies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “That boy I went out with last summer asked me and I told him yes.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of the students I was close to at Hailsham ended up at the Cottages that summer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though it was the middle of the summer, and I had a sweatshirt on, it was still pretty cold. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I’m really trying to make this summer not suck. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z My friend said that he knew I had been looking for summer employment. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But mostly, I could taste the sadness in his voice when he told me I couldn’t stay with him for the summer while he worked a railroad job back in Iowa. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I remember the clammy smell of beef-and-potato casserole, and the jingle of ice cubes tumbling into tall glasses, which sweated in the summer heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Last summer, I got a job at McDonald’s instead of volunteering at New York Methodist hospital like I used to. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid, his father had told him once, long ago, on the day they found the direwolf pups in the summer snows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z While I was learning to swim, Irene had spent her summers building fences, moving cattle, branding, and helping the neighbors who bordered her parents’ ranch, and their neighbors. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z One time later that summer, I sincerely asked Cade to do me a favor and please not give my father an aneurysm. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I just picture, like, a reed of grass being a summer thing.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It will be cool under their branches in summer, and in winter they’ll glow white with snow. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was on the opposite side, standing against the sidewall, calm as a summer day. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I folded both bills into the origami hearts we taught the kids how to do at summer camp. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Finally, one dull summer before I left for college, a friend and I secretly followed her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The air still feels rich in my lungs, though summer is drawing to a close. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was the last day of seventh grade before summer vacation. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When we showed up that late summer day in 1984, we brought the number to seven. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z All spring and all summer and all fall he spent on the road with bicycle road-racers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Liyana licked custard from a cream puff and stared at their familiar, rumpled neighbors in their summer clothes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Conner and his friends went camping a couple of times, so Keiko and I had the whole house to ourselves. Four nights in a row of sleepovers twice this summer! Like we were sisters.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I put my coat over her fraying blouse, even though the summer air is too hot for it, and wave to Helena. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z To Francis’ dismay, I showed little tendency to concentrate on DNA when my summer holiday ended. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Is that your lad?” cried the uncle, “the little fat lad I gave a copper to in the summer?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “All summer and all fall I’ve operated. I work all the time. I do everybody's work. All the hard ones they leave to me. By God, baby, I am becoming a lovely surgeon.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “My dear boy,” said Dippet kindly, “I cannot possibly let you stay at school over the summer. Surely you want to go home for the holidays?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I started to think that making Byron spend all of his summer in this heat was more punishment than even a juvenile delinquent like him deserved. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out to be a cool summer. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z As the end of summer came near, two things saddened Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the workers, foraging ceaselessly through the hot days of summer, will destroy countless caterpillars. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Who would want to sell me or buy me? I am just a girl who has seen barely fifteen summers. I have no skills.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The old men called this weather spirit summer, and said it meant the season was giving up its ghosts at last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You know, I lifeguard at the Y in summer, and swimming is a necessary life skill. I can teach you. I want to.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He returned to England that summer, hoping to overturn the studies with his analysis, but was struck by pneumonia and died suddenly at home. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was a sweltering afternoon, but Roy had resigned himself to the fact that there was no change of seasons in South Florida, only mild variations of summer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s never too late to find a summer job working at the mall, Will.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “It’s coming on summer, it’s New York—it’s hot. And how do you know so much about cricketers? Are you one?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind penetrated through the summer pants and T-shirt I was wearing, and it felt as though I wasn’t wearing anything. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Percy’s been acting very oddly this summer,” said George, frowning. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I wasn’t particularly tuned in to the political events unfolding in the nation that summer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The blue restaurant signs were old and autographed by the flies of many past summers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Dumbledore set off at once down the stone steps, his own traveling cloak barely stirring in the still summer air. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1967, it looked as if Durham was in for another “long, hot summer.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This particular summer afternoon, in a dusty geological library in Vienna, Sergeant Major von Rumpel follows an underweight secretary wearing brown shoes, brown stockings, a brown skirt, and a brown blouse through stacks of periodicals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Which was why I lived most of my summers in the tree house after I built it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The father sharpened the butcher knife with the whetstone he used to whet his scythe and his goose-necked brier hook in the summer when he cut brambles and young sumac in the fencerows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of the long summer was near at hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Wayne has imported the tradition of this “love-you circle,” as they call it, back from his summer drama camp. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The summer’s been scorching hot and dry as a bone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Even though there were lots of hints all summer long, I hadn’t really figured out that I’d been demoted to Annoying Younger Brother. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Not only do I have my sister back for the summer, but I know the truth about that family across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z During the summer, my friends Jasmine and Maya always left town. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Not to look for silver linings, but it seems like you'll now have some free time this summer. A summer class at Northwestern, maybe?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z By summer’s end, the Allies forced the German armies back across France and Belgium and liberated Paris. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Every summer we joined the poor inner-city kids the Fresh Air Fund organization sent to host families or to summer camps for free. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugh and I returned to Normandy the following summer, and I resumed my identity as the village idiot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z During a visit to his father the previous summer, Charles had gotten medical advice, as well as a warning about Doddy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember my first summer here in Würzburg, after that dreadful winter when I left the ghost of my mother behind in the burning city. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They had cheese and milk from the goats that shared the caves with the singers, even some oats and barleycorn and dried fruit laid by during the long summer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The first day of summer seems so long ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And all summer long, the German army fought and burned its way relentlessly toward the city of Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment had been flying in combat for only about six months when they suffered their heavy casualties and reinforcements in the summer of 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I think about Michael and how he feels about having to spend summers in the campground. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z That summer, on his last day in the Brookline office, he wrote three letters to George Vanderbilt, each saying pretty much the same thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a summer of dreadful speculations and discoveries, of which these were not the worst. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z But three summers ago, he turned eighteen, moved in with Madrina, and started acting funny around us—with an almost full beard, and a much deeper voice. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “It’s my friend Nigel’s family’s country house. He had me here in the summer as a guest, and no one is using it, and—I knew the gate code, didn’t I?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Today’s hymn was Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Forgive Our Foolish Ways; we had never heard that during the summer either. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1858, Charles Waring was a year and a half old. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There are events happening almost every week throughout the summer, but the student gallery isn't until August. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If it were summer, it would be three hours more. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do I follow him back right now? Playing it cool seems pointless since he’s leaving at the end of the summer. No time to waste.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Staring at a boy wearing black jeans and a long-sleeved black T-shirt even though it’s summer. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It turned out, then, that summer, that the moral barriers that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career were so tenuous as to be nearly nonexistent. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Now is the month of May, which marks the end of spring and promises a full and fruitful summer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Her son had been born that summer, and she did not want to be traveling in November with a four-month-old and her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z On winter days it swims with the odor of roasting chestnuts; on summer evenings it becomes slow and drowsy, full of sleepy conversations and the scraping of heavy iron chairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But I can honestly say that the time from summer to summer went very quickly. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z For the most part, we all kind of went about our day-to-day lives and got ready for summer vacation. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z A summer rainstorm with soft thunder—it didn’t seem anything to worry about and certainly nothing to keep him awake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z During the summer when I was eight, my family went by train to Saint Louis to see some of our cousins. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Since the summer began, the group chat has mainly been filled with messages exchanged between me and Serenity. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “My friend Melissa’s parents are divorced. She’s in California for the summer with her dad.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z That summer was the most time we ever spent together voluntarily. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I asked him what he would be doing that summer, and he told me he always stayed home in the summer, studying Talmud. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I’d seen her once before in the winter, but now in the summer she looked like a totally different goddess. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He gets taken to museums and gets enrolled in special programs and goes to summer camp, where he takes classes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Devon luckily had very little of such weather—the icy clamp of winter, or the radiant New Hampshire summers, were more characteristic of it—but this day it blew wet, moody gusts all around me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It took repeating my name for her to remember me from last summer. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He’d been a presence in the summer months, looking after the Indian corn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Half the summer went by quickly after the visit from the bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z At this point, I should explain what had happened to me since that summer day when I last hugged my dear and wise professor, and promised to keep in touch. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish the tub would expand so I could go swimming, like I used to on hot summer Sundays in the woods with my father. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I remember that sad summer after the Ocotillo Ball just as clearly as everything else. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Yes, I would have a whole summer to play. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So I remember a lot of the time, outside the summer months, being chilly. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the hotel’s third suicide that summer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It seemed like everything that summer had been pointing to that. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z About a dozen boys and girls shared the hut with me on that hot and sticky summer night in 1987. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she could even live with him for the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z One day that summer, Volpe came back into his house from running errands and Marcy handed him an envelope from the school district. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We’d taken the kids to visit her late that summer, and he’d gone again on his own ten days earlier, stepping off the campaign trail for a day to sit and hold her hand. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We had read The Red Badge of Courage in school, and over the summer I read and enjoyed a history of the Civil War by Bruce Catton. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask what kind of summer camp had an armory, but there was too much else to think about, so the tour continued. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I crept along, walking a southern walk in southern weather, closing my eyes from time to time against the dazzling reds, yellows and greens of cheap sport shirts and summer dresses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t I just swim and work in my garden this summer?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There were sure to be new fever cases until summer’s grip was well and truly broken. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I look forward to seeing you here all summer long.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z By the time summer trailed off into the season of endless rains, it was clear there was going to be trouble. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All we see of this is the odd stump, the fly struggling on the porch floor of the summer house in October, the fragment on the highway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no lessons in high summer—the time that Bod spent awake he spent in an endless warm twilight in which he would play or explore or climb. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The block was safe to play on under the watchful eye of housewives who sat in the windows in the summer, catching whatever breeze there was in those days before air-conditioning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z On a shining glittering fiery day in the eighth moon, which is the last end of summer, she came to his house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When I was younger, Granddaddy would let me watch soap operas with him every afternoon in the summer. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z By summer’s end we have nearly five hundred colonists to feed and house. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I see. Now, has your scar hurt at any other time this year, excepting the time it woke you up over the summer?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Even for western Kansas, renowned for the longevity of its Indian summers, the current sample seemed far-fetched—dry air, bold sun, azure sky. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z What I noticed that summer was that people generally have no idea how to react to strange situations like the one my family had been put into. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He will let me take the whole summer off. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The early summer days on a farm are the happiest and fairest days of the year. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The male walked toward them, unafraid, and reached out for his muzzle, a touch as light as a summer breeze. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Though he was getting faster by the day, he couldn’t force his body to improve quickly enough to catch his older rivals by summer. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z But not the same as in the last summer when she walked in the dark by herself and listened to the music and made plans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z To them, Puerto Rico was the place where their grandparents lived, a place they visited on school and summer vacations, a place which they complained was backward and mosquito-ridden. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z James had spent the summer in Pennsylvania with his grandparents, and it felt strange to see him back. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I pedaled there nearly every summer day on my black Schwinn bicycle. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Less and less often, as the summer set in, did her tart tongue discomfort her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Saturday night in summer, so this block is a nexus of tourists plus New Yorkers who made poor life choices that landed them here. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z A junior named Thomas had witnessed a good friend—a sixteen-year-old girl—get shot and killed the previous summer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We won’t talk about losing. There is enough talk about losing. What has been done this summer cannot have been done in vain.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z If you sit on them too long in the summer while wearing shorts, the plastic nearly glues to your legs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Her hair is drawn into a slick, tight ponytail that looks like it hurts, and her perfume smells like a dusty flower in summer twilight. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Teenagers drove their pickup trucks slowly along the streets of the town, looking for something to happen, wishing that the summer had not ended. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But wearing the thing is blazes hot in the summer, so I spend most days forgetting mine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z That first or second summer, at a camp in Patchogue, Long Island, he found a book of annotated chess games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “All through high school. I come after school when it’s not football season, every Saturday and all summer. I bought a car with the money I made last year.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve lost so much of what we did together summer fifteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z More luxurious than the finest airplane, gliding effortlessly over huge distances, built on a scale that left spectators gasping, it was, in the summer of ’29, the wonder of the world. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He had been preparing for a traditional legal career until he came down to work with us one summer and became fascinated by the issues that death penalty cases presented. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Lexie had taken an art history class at the museum the previous summer. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “So y’all can just find someone else to get your extra credit from this summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I had never thought about where Viola came from; she had always simply been there, punching down dough, peeling apples, preparing huge roasts in winter and frying up mountains of chicken in summer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I thought back to last summer and remembered what she was talking about. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The dirt path going down to the wooden footbridge is dry, dusty; the leaves of the trees which hang over it are dull green and worn-out from the summer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 2004, while carrying one up a flight of stairs on his back, it slipped from his grasp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the summer of 2004 the discussions resumed, and that September he was promoted. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The pavilion was big enough to take two separate groups without them bothering each other—in the summer, a third group could hang about out on the veranda. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “We had a few older agents who were set to retire but decided to putter on for another year. Means we can only offer four spots this summer.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Not only did we practice after school, but even during the summers we were together for camps and tournaments. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Only the faintest light came through the tangled summer growth above them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Last summer he left a lone bee in a jar on the kitchen counter for my mother. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is frizzy and looks like the kind of hair that gets reddish in the summer—just like mine. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Every fallen eyelash and first firefly of summer . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I skipped going to the Vets dances with Roberto for the rest of the summer. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I didn’t see any black or Latino playwrights on our syllabus at that summer camp. And only one woman,” she tells us. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Agatha and her brood have decided to come north for the summer. And of course she’s going to bring her mother and aunt. So you will get to spend June surrounded by Virginians!” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They have two natural gaits—the gentle, lolloping forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He would stay there until the following summer, more than a year after his arrest. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The sweetness spreads through my mouth, down my throat, warming my veins with memories of summer, and my home woods and Gale's presence beside me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In all the stories the little boy died at three of a summer chill, but Old Nan stayed on at Winterfell with her own children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Maybe this is a summer of second chances.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In the last week of July 1926, as the summer heat reached infernal temperatures, the trial of Hale and Ramsey for the murder of Henry Roan began at the redbrick courthouse in Guthrie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In a strange way, the Dark Lands reminded her of San Francisco, where her dad lived—on those summer afternoons when the fog bank rolled in like cold, wet packing material and swallowed Pacific Heights. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z During the summer the daytime temperature hovers around ninety-five degrees in the shade—if you can find any shade. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The sound of running and falling water was loud, and the evening was filled with a faint scent of trees and flowers, as if summer still lingered in Elrond’s gardens. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "Of course," I said, "I will be doing the same but opposite. I will commute north in the winter and south in the summer." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Overhead fans whirled at maximum speed, cutting through the humid summer funk. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air, and time is quiet and mellow. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When summer came, Hazel couldn’t get enough sun. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was a grey day of the kind often found at the too-brilliant start of early summer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z That same summer, Mamá stopped being a housewife. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He's been at summer camp all day and doesn’t know about Dad yet. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z On warm summer evenings, entire families rode the open-air trolley out to the Lakewood amusement park, dubbed the “Coney Island of the South” by promoters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That summer, the team of operatives hired by Mathis began to infiltrate Osage County. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For a moment, I took him for a vagrant, but then I saw he was just some local fellow enjoying the fresh air and summer sunshine, and saw no reason not to comply. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But in fact it had been seven years, or eight, or nine: the summer she worked at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the summer of Josef. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even when we went to the beach in the summer he never lay down to drowse in the sun the way I did. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I cry for the vain, thoughtless complaints I’ve made all summer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It would be the drawing-room, not used much in the summer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Regina wanted him to go to summer camp as he had before, but Bobby wouldn’t hear of it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a hot summer and I knew many people in Milan but always was anxious to get back home to the hospital as soon as the afternoon was over. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The little springs trickled on late in the summer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody on this comer is smart. You ain’t no smarter than anybody here. If you so smart, why you got to come on this comer every summer? ’Cause you flunkin’ school! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Maddie was out every Saturday that summer tinkering with engines and doping fabric wings and making friends. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In rural areas, schools closed in the spring and fall and ran all summer long, so that children could help out in the busy planting and harvesting seasons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I look out the window, and out in the distance is the valley beneath us, a sprinkling of thousands of lights shimmering in the summer fog. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not doing a video of that one. That one’s just for you. I mean if you want—” But Lydia stood and cut him off with a kiss that felt like a summer storm. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was a hazy summer evening, a month before I turned fifteen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was surprised at how hot the summer months were, when the winter months had been so frigid. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was perhaps some discontent or unease also in Ogion's mind, for he had spent all summer and autumn alone up on the mountain, and only now near Sunreturn was come back to his hearthside. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “We can make this the ‘summer only’ lunch table,” she said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “I'm sorry. I don't mean to be so moody. I just think about you here by yourself all summer and it's kind of depressing.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Why should he refuse, week after week, to start the great explosion which the young men wanted to get started and have finished before the year was well into the summer? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z As the summer wore on, I spent more and more time studying Science and less and less time practicing the piano. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Trees drooped in the unrelenting summer sun; grass and leaves dried out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Behind the house the hills were piled in great pressing masses, flooded with summer green now, rich, and still. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Now it’s definitely your turn, Lucy, unless you want me to talk about the teachers, too. Ms. Fleming went through a nasty divorce over the summer.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1943, the Atlantic was full of German submarines and British battleships. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I guess I stopped noticing it over the summer, but it’s been a while now since I’ve been in his truck. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I helped make that cushion one summer,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z They come back to me, die scattered days of that summer with the Object, each encased in a souvenir snow globe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Little changed for my family and me during the summer after graduation. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “In late May, when I was headed home to the farm for the summer.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It was never my intention to get a summer job out of Mrs. DiAngelo. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Almost all his summer had been spent collecting pedantic data for his thesis, and now he was in a mood to think about important facts. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But oddly enough, I found myself missing these corrections that summer. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It is a cool evening in September, raining steadily, the summer’s leaves still plentiful on the trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time summer came, she had seven shots that she thought might have something, as Pauline had always put it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dara Lynn’s got the devil in her tonight—little bit bored with summer, but not quite ready for school to start. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing what they look like after the summer. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “One summer when I was about nine, my dad went off to rehab for his dryer sheet addiction. He used to huff ’em down in the basement, box after box. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In summer the road here would have been sketchy but pass-able; now it was made unnavigable by a foot and a half of mushy spring snow. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought about Mr. Staphopoulos, her lifesaving coach from the summer before. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z And around me everywhere the gulls were fishing for scallops, which were numerous that summer. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer before my freshman year, a group of lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “This has been a tough summer for him with Quincy gone. Quincy is his best friend. He’s in Seattle with his grandparents.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly that summer she decided that my mother was the woman who had stolen her husband. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1924, Harding’s successor, Calvin Coolidge, had gotten rid of Burns and appointed a new attorney general, Harlan Fiske Stone. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was a summer of staying out late, a summer of wandering. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Her mother reiterated that she wanted to wait until the end of the summer to get one, but her father wasn’t having it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “He’s working a railroad job back in Iowa. He says it’s not fit living for a girl my age, so I’m here for the summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Edie and her friends are making a short film this summer,” Dad says. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If it was last summer, I would’ve been excited to hear him come out. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She didn’t smile or say “Good Morning” or “Welcome to eighth grade” or “Did you have a nice summer?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On my way out, I pass the five-foot Stormtrooper cardboard cutout that he won shooting free throws at the town’s Fourth of July festival last summer. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z It promised to be a hot summer, so T-shirts and shorts were good ideas. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Among other things, I remember, it was tough getting dates that summer. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z No music I’d played all last year, including over the summer with Emerson, had given me any trouble. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But early in the summer he came home with something on his mind. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All summer the smells of nettles and daisies and rainwater purl through the gardens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Every summer when the mango trees started giving fruit, the couple who lived in the building next to ours would give her a grocery bag full of ripe, delicious mangos. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Ellis was at summer sports camp for a week, and it was just Dad and me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In the summer of ’96, we had our first major gang war in The Wells in years. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks into his work at Grand Coulee, Joe discovered that among the many college boys who had converged on Grand Coulee seeking work that summer there were two from the Washington shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’d watch him mow our lawn in the high heat of summer in a pair of wing tips, suspenders, and a thin-brimmed fedora, the sleeves of his dress shirt carefully rolled up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Rocket summer People leaned from their dripping porches and watched the reddening sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z So I put on my handicapped face and took my mind back to last summer when Mom and I went to the zoo. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The next morning was a Saturday, and it was our first summer in Oklahoma, so we didn’t know that kids went to camps, and soccer leagues, and vacations, and stuff. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The summer between the fifth and sixth grades was going very well. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Then, late that summer, a fabric merchant fell asleep and forgot to put out his cigarette. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There was a harvest festival there every year at the end of the summer, and Mama sold a lot of onions. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Think of the Sun’s heat on your upturned face on a cloudless summer’s day; think how dangerous it is to gaze at the Sun directly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Weeds have overcome her husband's herbs, but she still tends to the tomatoes—his favorite—that glow on the vine every summer. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cade’s voice was as sweet as jasmine flowers on an early summer evening. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It rains almost every afternoon in the summer. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was not until the next summer that Father got the paperwork straightened out and the proper demon officials bribed, and then he sailed for the Middle Kingdom to bring back Mother. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the meritocracy John Casteen described when he greeted the parents of freshmen in a University of Virginia lecture hall in the late summer of 2004. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer he returned to Michigan. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had grown up in Idaho during the Great Depression, working summers as a miner to pay for college, and was eager to jump into the ranks of the G-men. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He has put down the drawing pencil he’d picked up the summer before. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Miri had gone to Jamaica with her family at the end of the summer and came back really tan. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In the summer, when the sun was blistering hot, she stayed on the north side of the cabin because it was cooler there. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z So I close my eyes, and suddenly I’m at the summer carnival in downtown Newark. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There were only two hundred of us at Devon in the summer, not enough to fill most of the school. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z This happens faster in summer than it does in winter. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Until the time we took open aim and won, and our summers—if not our lives—became our own. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And I made mint at my summer job and it gave me play money for the year. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She taught fourth grade during the school year and worked the video store in the summer—her parents owned it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The summer at the end of my sophomore year, Roberto taught me how to drive the Santa Maria Window Cleaners van on weekends. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z That summer of 1940, in Lansing, I caught the Greyhound bus for Boston with my cardboard suitcase, and wearing my green suit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This was also the first summer I convinced Dad to let me volunteer at the adoption center inside Zimmerman’s Pet Store at the Pagoda Mall. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Nearly broke his neck last summer when he decided to see if pigs might be able to fly. He and one of Elmer’s weaner pigs took a nosedive off the barn.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As do black people on summer blocks marked with needles, vials, and hopscotch squares. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Some believe they are natural features, perhaps relics of lightning fires, and some believe that they are man-made, burned or cleared to provide land for summer grazing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When the sinister, curling stem—in appearance not unlike the peavines that grew in early summer in their garden—reached his ankle, it began to curl tightly around his flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He runs through the last summer picnickers, who come despite the fog, and I pretend to be angry with him when he steals a block of cheese or a bag of Goldfish. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The intention was to control the spruce budworm, but the following summer it was discovered that a problem worse than the budworm damage had been created. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They always hired colored kids to help out for the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Because it was summer and the days were quite long, I was fasting for sixteen hours a day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I did not like this rush to the end of summer, when Lily would be leaving me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z But her voice was so shaky and Southern that I wondered if we’d be driving around in the summer with a skeleton dangling from the outside mirror by its lips. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm lying awake in the dark on a hot summer night and I'm thinking, Treasure in the sewer? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “Holy Angels is staying open this summer,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z On the way to the hotel, all the girls are hyped to get a little slice of summer, even though Old Man Winter has already arrived. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The summer ended quietly, and that was fine with me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Now that I thought about it, I realized I hadn’t seen Chris.at camp this summer. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z My first day of summer vacation is nothing like I dreamed. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she was still a college student, working at the library for the summer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z And his father had loved to shoot baskets with him at the elementary school’s outdoor court in the cool misty summer evenings after supper. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “After a couple weeks at my place this summer? Your closest friend? Not even possible. I should have asked you to leave after the first weekend.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Harvesting the remainder of the summer squash crop was no less tiring than it had been the day before. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z All winter long her beach plum jelly brought back memories of summer vacation: August on toast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She was also a daughter of Ares, and I’d had a very serious disagreement with her father last summer, so now the god of war and all his children basically hated my guts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z During late summer and early fall, Cole had spotted the Spirit Bear every few days as it wandered along the shore outside the bay or drank from the stream near the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In the end we didn’t go, and that summer Ben lost control of his motorbike on the A10, and he and I never got to go sailing. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Guess I won't be a princess or a queen this summer. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Bull would fly over thirty rooftops before landing on top of someone’s chimney, which would be burning hot even though it was summer and no one was using their fireplace. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z As recently as that very summer they had been shown their position in the Philadelphia society that was now pleading for their help. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Mika’s Diner closed three months after I started working there, and because of the up-and-down economy, regular people were taking summer jobs that used to be saved for students. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z So that’s where Ruth and I were sitting to get our breath back, looking at the cobwebs up on the rafters and the summer evening outside. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was one of the warm summer evenings, there would still be groups congregating, just without the fire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she patiently collected the same kind of caterpillar again and again until it produced the “summer bird” she expected. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I smelled lemons warmed by the summer sunshine, my favorite scent in the whole world. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She said, “Now, lessons.”It was high summer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It’s one of the last days of summer. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z After the pictures, we’d be free for the rest of the day to mourn the final moments of our unstructured summer. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t say that the railroad had been fit living for me pretty near my whole life and I didn’t see why this summer was any different. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The summer between seventh and eighth grade, Dad put me to work stuffing envelopes for an advertising campaign he was doing to get more customers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z If I didn't know better, I'd think the whole town was decorated for a summer luncheon. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Matter of fact, that summer, a little girl was hit by a bullet when she was sleeping. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a cool, breezy summer day and everyone seems to be outside. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I answered that I wanted to get my summer homework over and done with. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The day came, full of brilliant, hot sunshine like most Roman summer days. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I thought I would spend the summer reading Finnegans Wake and writing my thesis. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was the last day of classes before summer break, and while he was excited to do nothing for the next several weeks except train, Jam was—as always—on some hunt for information. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “It’s tough living and not everyone finds it relaxing. We have a long summer, and if you keep that attitude, it’s going to be even longer. Be patient. Give it time. For me?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z But after that, when I started telling him what Margaret had told me about his homecoming the summer before last, he seemed to sink back into himself. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shakers had indeed left the land that would become Shaker Heights long before, and by the summer of 1997 there were exactly twelve left in the world. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I suppose I should back up here, rewinding us through the heavy heat of that summer, through the disorienting haze of those long months after my father died. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But somehow, by that second summer, things were different. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z "In fact, he’s on his way to getting out in three years instead of four. He insisted on taking two additional courses during the first summer session." It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I had plans to try growing eggplant along with my tomatoes this summer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They gave me this insane reading list for the summer that included Under the Volcano and David Copperfield. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In the summer they would sneak out at night and meet in the park, and now the smell of the evening air always reminded her of him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The summer stretched golden in front of us with promises of picnics and fish frys, blackberry hunts and croquet games till dark. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As they reached the bottom of the slope, Taran heard the waters of Great Avren rushing like wind in a summer storm. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I hadn’t spoken to Poseidon since last summer. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Another thing I did that summer was to confirm Cico’s story. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If we had, every kneeler in your Seven Kingdoms would have chunks o’ ice to cool his wine all summer.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Later that summer, when company came to call, Dad would whistle assembly and then introduce us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The clinic is a few streets from the ocean, and in the summer sometimes Mom and I walk to the waterfront park while David has his appointment. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as high school was over, Chris declared, he was going to get behind the wheel of his new car and spend the summer driving across the country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The first people to call him by his new name are his suitemates, Brandon and Jonathan, both of whom had been notified by mail over the summer that his name is Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know who owns it now, but they’re not around this summer. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There were many letters from both Jenny and Ross Milton that summer, letters that brought hope and comfort to the family at home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He had read the books in Europe, where he got to go over the summer because his dad’s books were popular there. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Told you at the very beginning that I was in summer school with Hudson. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It turned out I was supposed to have been picking them up over the summer as well—some kind of handout that I didn’t get in the mail. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Spring turned into summer and the grass in the garden changed into a ruddy gold color. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in their adolescent days during summer visits, the four girls used to shock their Island cousins with stories of their escapades in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Megan and I met in second grade, but her family would eventually move to Massachusetts and I would visit her during the summers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, as the summer wore on, various unforeseen shortages began to make themselves felt. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The little house in Barrow became borne as Julie fitted into Nusan’s routine, and summer was upon the land before she knew it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Every summer, she goes to Jewish sleepaway camp in New Jersey. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And if at the beginning of the summer someone had said I’d be friends with my nemesis, I’d have said there was a greater chance that Earth would be swallowed by a black hole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z On the last day of the summer session, he came to the classroom where she was changing from her work shoes to her flip-flops, zipping up her sweatshirt and gathering the rest of her things. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Every day? At six forty-five? But—but—it’s summer break! We gotta do chores every day?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z "It is very hot in the summer in Madrid." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Johnny and Mirren met us at the dock, pink in the cheeks and full of summer plans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “It’s almost summer. How about something cream-colored? With a yellow silk necktie?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the summers, the families began the tradition of organizing a picnic at Log Cabin Beach, a wooded resort overlooking the James River, built exclusively “for members of the race.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I figured I might have them all read by the time summer was over. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I am glad now that I did not have time to mow it—I decided last summer that I wouldn’t even try, so the grass is knee-high and a lot of weeds have sprung up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In the summer evenings Pa did not tell stories or play the fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There will be no spring to relieve it, no summer, no autumn. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She could feel the summer heat surrounding her as if it were rising from her body, and she reached up and squeezed the last droplets of water from her hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I came upon it last summer and dug and burned it out until I made a snug cave in the tree that I now call home. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d worked shoulder to shoulder all summer, which made the whole endeavor more palatable. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “On a Monday in the summer. Living your best life.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Every Saturday night and Sunday afternoon was like the Fourth of July in all the little towns of southern Illinois that summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Toward the end of our second day on the train, June 13, eight days before the summer solstice, we passed through spine golden hills and over the Mississippi River into St. Louis. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Now the summer was upon them, the captain had not been shot down, and he said he had the grippe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z "Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Together the friends opened the door and walked out into the sunlight of a summer morning. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He took her to the Renaissance Festival two summers ago. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She has on a pretty flowered dress, perfect for the sunny summer weather. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Thus the summer passed, and years later they would both recall those passionate nights as the happiest time of their lives. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael worked, too, for the Etheringtons, who were vigorous summer people from Seattle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We’d row it all the way down the Corsica River to Pioneer Point, where the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., has a summer place. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Mama, how much do you know about this summer camp?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “What are you going to do the rest of the summer?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might go off at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z While we waited for Doc’s response, the sounds of summer drifted in through the window and the front door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When I used to look outside my bedroom window on summer mornings, I saw nothing but corn and blue sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Cool. We did Europe the year before last. We were in Japan this past summer.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They give it a name, like it’s a summer sleepaway camp, and not a prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I’m in 7th grade, too. But a lot of people think I’m in high school. The lifeguard at the pool this summer thought I was in 10th grade.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It seemed a century since the summer just a year ago when she had read and reread Oliver Twist and dreamed of home. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There had been other disturbances earlier that summer, in South Carolina, Texas, and Washington, D.C. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But he doesn’t answer, just walks down the aisle toward me, a lazy, lanky walk that makes me think of summer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I could not imagine it rough now, any more than I could imagine winter in summer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Louise sent them to me at summer camp, the only care package I got. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Gat, did you know about Cadence not remembering, like, most of the summer fifteen?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She may still have a wonderful vacation, making new friends, playing outside, going to the movies, having the kind of carefree summer days that we all dream about. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “There are worse ways to spend the summer.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was deserted in summer because it had little shade. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, one night, the first storm of the summer struck the island and startled everybody from their dreams. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The landscape then looked strange, unearthly strange to the Lord Odysseus: paths by hill and shore, glimpses of harbors, cliffs, and summer trees. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z New roller coasters every summer he met the required height. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I wish you could’ve seen my acres in the spring, all green frizz creeping along the prairie, or in late summer, when the flax turned the fields deep sea blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Probably. My dad might spend next summer in Alaska, though, so I don’t know,” Lindsey said, eyeing MaryAnne as she pretended that she had something to say to her coach, some reason for coming over. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In spite of his efforts to please the Emperor, in the summer of 1630 Wallenstein fell from favour and was dismissed from his key post as commander of the army. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Instead of visiting Cairo like usual, they had to spend the summer packing up the house he’d lived in his whole life. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z A summer month could stretch on for years, out on Long- leaf. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I’d left my window open, and the summer night air flowing over our brown bodies felt good. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z There was a play that summer at the Worm Creek Opera House, and Shawn and I bought tickets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yup. If you do a good job—if Ari gives you a positive review—then at the end of the summer, you can apply to the Food Network show.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z With the golden summer upon me, food was much easier to get, and I actually had several hours of free time after supper in which to do other things. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least one new family has built a hedge to avoid people seeing them as they pass by,” said Wade Green, seventy- two, who has summered here for years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The space had that deliciously ripe aroma of the earth right after a summer thunderstorm. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z At the end of summer Krishna’s birthday was celebrated. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She spent all day long sitting in the river splashing down the summer rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you saw my piece over the summer about the International Confederation of Wizards’ Conference?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “So, Hiram, you got your wish to stick around in Greenwood a little longer. You been enjoying the extra summer vacation?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1940 we didn’t do much for my birthday either, since the fighting had just ended in Holland. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z For a while last summer, I thought I’d heard them all, the natural questions of someone who hadn’t read the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But this was not going to be like all our other summers. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z They are volunteers: last of the great volunteer armies, for the draft is beginning that summer in the North. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’d only have to spend one summer of your only God-given young life with Coach,” Todd said, fingering the ball out of the cup before downing his drink. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z One day in the summer of 1986, in the frantic weeks before moving away from his family, before his freshman year at Yale is about to begin, Gogol Ganguli does the same. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The fireflies came out in such great numbers that no one could remember a summer with a more spectacular show. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A single gust of summer air made it through the chill, and Piper breathed it in, taking it as a good omen. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He could not wait till summer to tell him what was lodged in his chest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Right because I am the girl who spends her summers reading books and working, tutoring at the rec, when a lot of her friends are at the rec, playing their summers away. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We had many happy times that summer, fishing and going to Tall Rock in our canoe, but more and more now I thought of Tutok and my sister Ulape. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z One summer, a couple of years ago, three children stepped on a plane in Jacksonville, Florida. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It tasted of summer and mud and growing things. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I climbed the stairs and got back into bed, pulling a pillow over my face to block out the summer light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Only last summer he’d gotten an official warning that had stated quite clearly that if the Ministry got wind of any more magic in Privet Drive, Harry would face expulsion from Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z One summer when his fur grew matted and mildewed I clipped him to the skin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was only with me for one summer, Percy. Right here at this beach. This cabin.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “It was good to have time away from school. How was your summer? Did you do something fun?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The next morning, I enrolled in the summer session for accounting. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her round head, the shape of a summer peach, rolled and she was missing half of her face. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I was wrong. It’s worse. This summer stinks like rotten eggs on a dead skunk.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Then the summer before fourth grade I gave my bone marrow to Michael. It was his last chance. Everything else had failed.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z It was afternoon, late August, the end of the long, lonely summer after sixth grade. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The garden behind the little house had been growing all summer. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, a week after summer vacation had started, he and Grandpa were on the top of Bear Butte. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The previous summer Palmer’s mother had taken him to the outdoor Y pool for swimming lessons. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z This was one of the last great summer peaches. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It’s blisteringly hot in the summer, bleakly cold in winter. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Did you have a good summer?” he asked quietly. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Finally, the broiling, terrifying summer was coming to an end. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z A first photograph, somewhat overexposed, is taken by Dr. Gupta that broiling hot, late summer’s day: Gogol, an indistinct blanketed mass, reposing in his weary mother’s arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “After such a merry, sinful summer,” he mused, “by the just judgement of God, a most mournful autumn followed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But as the sun filtered down through the bare branches and glittered on the new snow, the Wood was every bit as alive as it was in the summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Great stretches of the long grass, once the teeming jungle of summer, were almost deserted, with only a hurrying beetle or a torpid spider left out of all the myriads of August. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I smelled the summer in this rocky place, and the summer smelled like electrical bums. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He told us that we’d better be running over the summer because they didn’t fool around in high school PE. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They lived now in the Bronx, in a one-bedroom apartment in a redbrick building on Tremont Avenue, next to an Italian beer garden where the old men played boccie on summer evenings. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Coo/.” “But I suppose I’m also Son, since my dad ran things when he was alive. I guess I’m Frazer, too, since my son works here during the summers.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s later in the summer—for the more accomplished students, she told me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It starts changing almost instantly after you tell me you like Dylan Parker, and by the summer before sixth grade, it is all different. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Such was the case with McMillan, who was offered a physics instructorship that summer, allowing him to turn down a competing offer from Princeton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And so the summer drifted by up there in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In Harlem especially, and also in some other U.S. cities, the 1964 long, hot summer’s predicted explosions had begun. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad builds a bonfire in the summer sometimes,” I said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I don’t want to see him in summer school either. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Nothing on it today, they don’t leave the bodies hanging as long in summer as they do in winter, because of the flies and the smell. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was in the midst of a recession in the summer of 1980 and interest rates were close to 20 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ran into Ryan’s mom the other day and she was telling me all the fun things the community center is sponsoring for kids this summer,” Mom says. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the clothesline was the beginning of the summer. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Maybe. But that’s his problem. If he doesn’t show up, you won’t have to spend the summer with him. Problem solved.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Everything Harry had learned last year seemed to have leaked out of his head during the summer. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The wait was much longer this time, and I was learning about the strange summer hibernation of Susquinian when I felt a light touch on my shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The warm orange paint covering the walls, which had me ready for fall this summer. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I figured Carl was going to give me grief about not crabbing this summer and all those pots going to waste settin’ there by the shed. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z You stare into the dark and think about the stars at summer camp. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Next, let’s see what happens if we look just at how reading scores change during summer vacation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Her husband emerges from the light and comes toward her, taller than the palms, walking on water in his white summer suit and Panama hat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent my summers at prestigious basketball camps like 5-Star Basketball and Eastern Invitational, camps where college coaches prowl, looking for fresh prospects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A summer of pretending that the end wasn't coming. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The following summer, the Sinclair family returned to Beech- wood Island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1943, these women were all fighting in combat against the German invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Lacks children had to work from sunup to sundown; they weren’t allowed to take breaks, and they got no food or water until nightfall, even when the summer heat burned. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Until that summer, I had kept count of all the moons since the time my brother and I were alone upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must come and stay this summer,” said Ron, “both of you — I’ll send you an owl.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z An intelligent being: A humpback whale breaches the surface of the waters, Frederick Sound, Alaska, summer 1979. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When appointed to a council committee to look into the proposal during the summer, one councilman refused, angrily protesting, “The council knows the need for a human relations commission, and it has failed to act...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That summer, just before motoring across country to take up his new post, he stopped in Washington to see Merle Tuve. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From his other pocket, he took out a red sports drink and a small bottle of sunblock, which his mom always insisted he wear during the summer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It happened no more than a handful of times each year, though more often in the summer months. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At summer socials, their day of fun was capped off with the ultimate celebration of a butcher’s skill—the cattle-dressing contest. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “My dad wanted to take me to Greece this summer,” she said wistfully. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Now that the Theme is decided, let’s move on to more important things! What did you do all summer?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He speaks with a Southern accent, smokes fat cigars and wears a felt hat—winter or summer, hot or cold, don’t matter—a felt hat. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z As Annabelle pokes through other stuff, she sees a lot of talk about college and next week’s graduation at KeyArena and a summer camping trip. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “All but a few payments. By the end of a good summer’s trade she’ll be every inch mine from stem to stern.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I went to France the following summer knowing only the word for bottleneck. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Grampa and I had been following our summer routine pretty faithfully. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The summer before, we spent many weekends at my grandparents' lake house in the Poconos. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We go on like it’s a nice summer afternoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Having a drink and an unrushed meal together has always been our pathway back to the start, to that first hot summer when everything between us carried an electric charge. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In summer, the music would float out on the evening air, reaching the neighboring houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the only comfort she had that summer. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They worked covered with sweat in stifling enclosed cockpits in the summer. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Now he spends half of the summer, every other weekend, Tuesday and Thursday nights and some holidays with his dad. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, one summer night, she fell from the window of a hotel room. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They had just returned from their summer vacation on the Croatian coast. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Over the summer a kid in Harlem had been killed by a white police sergeant and there had been some riots. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So Havens drove home each day from a summer job at a stone supply warehouse to work the phone from his cluttered childhood bedroom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Joel wouldn’t begin slaughtering cattle and turkeys till later in the summer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The country had waited expectantly that summer to hear of a decisive victory by its hero-commander, Grant. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I had plans for my summer break, for how I wanted to spend it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z We had almost every class together that summer, and we managed to become close friends in a short time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that long ago when spending my summer with Hudson was all I could think about. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Next summer, I must really go somewhere else.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z As important as anything else, he could be sure that none of them would be graduating before the Olympic summer of 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Five hours later, not at all sober, he turned up the unpaved road that led to the summer house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I parked on the street, near the outdoor showers where people washed the sand off their feet before walking to their cars during the summer. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to see him fail out of summer school because he’s avoiding me. He’ll get left behind if he’s absent three times.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Next was a postcard, one he’d given her the summer before fifth grade. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then, “Free Huey, seize the time!” and every other Black Panther slogan we learned last summer in Oakland with Cecile and the Black Panthers. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A neighbor, an old lady, told me that Samuel and his father had taken a job sheepherding for the rest of the summer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I simply learned to get in touch with the power of nature this summer. Zack’s going to help me move my bed around later.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z In late summer, I was washing up in a pond when I noticed the plants growing around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “There was a summer when the sun never shined. This is before you were born. Fog came in on the Fourth of July and didn’t leave until Labor Day.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There was little to do in Clarkston in the summers but sweat. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z One day near the end of the summer I bumped into Ty and Johnny at the Quik-Mart and they looked at me suspiciously. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At first, I thought I might be coming down with a summer cold. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This summer, Mama Ya-Ya let me paint the walls different shades of blue. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Our parents used to send us every summer, but it’s been years since we’ve been there. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Determined to have a good summer, she raced the rest of the way home. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I got my acceptance at San Jose State that summer and declared an English major. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Thunder and lightning and wind, the worst storm of the summer season. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The smell of snow had a cold damp edge, and a clarity that summer rain never had. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We are in summer and it’s very hot. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There was a pause, and then he said, “We’re not really friends. We hang out sometimes during the summer, when I have nothing better to do.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Ali swore that if you ate watermelon the night of yelda, you wouldn’t get thirsty the coming summer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I loved visiting her there, loved those meandering talks we had, through the summer to the early autumn, sitting on that balcony together, talking about Hailsham, the Cottages, whatever else drifted into our thoughts. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z So used to summers on Beechwood, to endlessly stocked pantries and multiple motorboats and a staff quietly grilling steaks and washing linens—I didn’t even think about where that money might be coming from. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The brick house with the pink vine wrapped around its forehead in the summers. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That last summer we were shipped home began like all the others. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, who did the best job in predicting what the Japanese were up to in the summer and fall of 1941? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The smell of New York City in the heat of early summer floated in the thick air around her: garbage, poverty, ambition. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I recall, as an example of this pursuit, an occasion when he arranged that we should go out into the countryside and take our supper beneath the summer sun. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He came when he started middle school, and I joined him last year because a spot finally opened up in the fifth-grade class when a kid moved away over the summer. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z If you visit in spring or summer, you might ask, Does anyone in this place ever plant a flower? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Could we venture out on a summer evening, our way illuminated by the two hurtling moons of Barsoom, for a journey of high scientific adventure? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The countryside sparkled as the summer sun hit the morning dew. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it’s good-bye for the summer or good-bye for the rest of my life. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Something about living in a small town, like the ones where he’d spent his Fresh Air Fund summers. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In the summer of’27 he was seventeen, aloof, clever, and utterly singular. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Monday went by like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first hours of dawn. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On horseback, they were driving their sheep home from summer pasture fifty miles west, far on the other side of the Rio Grande gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I see your grands are back for the summer, Miss Bell says. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z It was the first time I’d seen the place since last summer, and it brought back bad memories. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This summer she would learn to type and would throw away pencils forever. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It is just a summer grippe, I told myself. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminds me of the pale sky of a Würzburg summer morning, the white blossoms on the orange trees in the gardens. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z City hall, as I learned on the sweltering summer day I showed up to meet Valerie for a job interview, was both alarmingly and upliftingly packed with people. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it--overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Dimly, Hazel wondered if they’d hit an iceberg—but in the Adriatic, in the middle of summer? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It got cold at night, even on the beach in the summer, so he built fires with the remains of Calypso’s dining table. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In Phoenix during late summer, however, you couldn’t escape the humidity. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Now you know,” he said, “now you know what I have been fighting against since last summer at Grand Isle, what drove me away and drove me back again.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z During the summer, they kept the dough and yeast culture in the cellar so it didn’t get too hot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z By early June, he had decided he would take the summer off, and maybe cut back his workweek when he returned to the firm. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I was contributing almost as much as I had during the previous summer, but I wasn’t taking the money proudly to Momma for her to count out and put into the crock. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The trouble was that she knew the North Pole, had been there with George Edzel only last summer, and what was more, found it pretty grim. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Cebolleta people salvaged lumber and tin from the shack, but they had no use for the barbed wire any more; the last bony cattle wandering the dry canyons had died in choking summer duststorms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Foot-long icicles hung from their eaves and the snow lay in drifts against the north side of their house: they should have gone on being summer people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I asked Vega if he would be spending summer down in DR—his favorite subject—and he didn’t say nothing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z It was the summer I turned six and he turned eight. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the summer seemed strange because it was so normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I hadn't counted on the beach being overrun with summer people. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “And our bosses. Neither of us was late for work all summer. When we don’t show up this morning, they’ll know something’s wrong. They’ll try to call us, then the hospitals, then the cops.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It said the last day of summer was September 21. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The kid had never held a job in his life and was spending his summer break from the Ivy League here, ostensibly to get training. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Time somebody looked after her so’s she won’t need to run off any more. Next summer she’ll go to your school, like I always wanted.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It tasted like summer, like fun, like innocence in the Rio Grande; so I swallowed, and the purity of it was divine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We climbed out of the Marriott basement and stood on the sidewalk in the bright summer daylight, squinting at the traffic and crowds. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Ma must not have noticed how much he had grown since the year before when she packed all his old summer clothes. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In summer she’d sorted berries, cut runners, pulled weeds, and kept one eye on the Indians and Japanese who yearly picked on the Heine farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After the year in England, I spent three summer months living with my mother and father, relieved by how easy it was to be home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Two summers had come and gone and the Aleut hunters had not returned, yet during these days I always looked for them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, how could she just leave me hanging all summer? Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This was wonderful in winter but unbearable in summer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The only thing that worried me was that all the abalones I had gathered in the summer were gone. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I’ve spent the whole summer moping around and missing Georgia, but it’s like someone just flipped a light switch inside of me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The sounds carried sharply, through the hot summer afternoon. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When butterflies appeared in spring, people called them “summer birds,” assuming they had flown in from elsewhere. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Just like Emerson had taught me over the summer, first I warmed up with a few long notes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t at first been too keen on this development, remembering how the previous summer we’d all sat around together in the grass right outside the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “And come summer, we were so uncomfortable. In high school—this was in the late seventies—some of us went without underwear, just to stay cool. Knee socks with no underwear!” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The finest building was, he knew, the kitchen hut, but the cook fire had been moved outside for the summer. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Flashbacks of this summer pass through my mind like a song repeating itself over and over again. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Then, on a soft summer evening, I stood next to Bud, grasping the reins while Shawn held the halter steady, and stepped into the saddle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was warm, too, more like the dog days of summer than the breezy beginnings of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I daydreamed constantly about working at Zimmerman’s that summer to save me the embarrassment of the stupid uniform, but I knew Mr. Zimmerman didn’t hire people under seventeen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It was at Stanford, one day near the end of my senior year, that a friend told me about a summer construction job he knew was available. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One day that summer, a stranger with a Chaplinesque mustache showed up in Gray Horse to offer his assistance to the private eyes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Everyone asked, “What did you do over the summer?” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As he began putting programs into place over the summer, a rising chorus of hostile voices had begun to call him a radical, a socialist, even a Bolshevik. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The sun was still strong, but it lacked the vitality of the summer sun. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “If they were able to complete it in the summer of 1945,” he said, “we might have had the luck to complete it in the winter of 1944-1945.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “About what? How about that girl? Huh? What was I? Your summer rebound?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z For them, the rambling family house in Farmville was where they went on holidays and summer vacations, not a home they had left behind. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Thought briefly of all the pleasant, boring things I might’ve been doing with my summer, had my life gone differently. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z All morning, Mother’s been following me around with a new hair-straightening thing while Daddy’s been on the front porch growling and goddamning the cotton fields because they’re melting like summer snow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z That summer, I became obsessed with taking photos. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z ‘Has it been a bad year, or what? I thought it had been a fine summer and harvest.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Dad had the whole summer off on account of his temporary unemployment, and Mom was staying with friends back in New York City to do some well-paid consulting for a month. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A letter was like the summer rain that could make even the desert bloom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw two more giant devilfish along the reef that summer, but I did not try to spear them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z By noon the rain was long gone and the sun was the hottest I’d felt it all summer. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would my dad—who hadn’t even stayed around long enough to see me born— talk to my mom about a summer camp? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The college lay in summer twilight, set back from the road by a long, sloping lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She went first to the barn, where the men were sharpening hoes and sickles in preparation for the summer hay cutting. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And so here she was, on the second day of summer break, adding a few more scales along a pair of dragon wings and worrying about crying murals. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Only about two weeks before I arrived, she had split up with her second husband—the soldier, Frank, whom I had met there the previous summer; but she was taking it right in stride. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can see that I’m going to have to deal with two mothers this summer.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z There was the summer his father shot a bear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after that, the sky grew dark and I thought we were in for a summer storm. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z These summer dinners always started so late—it was past ten o’clock—and the boys would be tired. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And I’ve named her Edwina after a clown we saw at the carnival last summer, who juggled and told dumb jokes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Candice was the one forced to check her email on her mom’s phone all summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The summer wore on, and I found respite in the coolness of the river and the dimness of Granddaddy’s laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, I’m the one making it awkward? You guys have been dating! All summer!” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I saw them mostly in the summer, down by the river, fishing or swimming naked, but I didn’t really know any of them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a boy the white summer sun of Sacramento would darken me so, my T-shirt would seem bleached against my slender dark arms. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottom line is, it was only a summer fling. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z During the summer and fall of 1955, Montgomery’s adult black activists thought hard about the buses—which looked increasingly like Jim Crow’s Achilles’ heel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It was a black ’dobe street, deep shining mud in winter and hard as rutted iron in summer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The warm summer days had become hot summer weeks, but the cool nights were always a reminder that we were far from home. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It was summer, and tryouts were two months away, but the coach, Kanue learned, would let kids join summer practice so long as they understood that they weren’t guaranteed a spot on the roster. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Now it was high summer, with the hay drying in the fields and all the village praying for the rain to hold off until the grain was safely cut and stored away for winter. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On the right was a row of tall, narrow windows that were wedged open all year, save for a few cold weeks in winter and the occasional summer storm. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Some summers there had been road trips with one or two Bengali families, in rented vans, going to Toronto or Atlanta or Chicago, places where they had other Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As Dante and I lay on our backs in the bed of my pickup and gazed out at the summer stars, I was free. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “That stuff happened earlier in the summer. It just doesn’t matter anymore,” I say, feeling stronger. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “But I have never fixed on June or any other month—merely looked forward to the summer in general.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z When summer came, Orr rolled up the side flaps to allow a breeze that never blew to flush away the air baking inside. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Lena’s hut was gone, replaced by an unfamiliar road with trees on all sides; half the trees had decided to put on their fall colors, but the other half stubbornly clung to summer green. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z But towards the end of summer, just before they fly back to the North Atlantic, where they pass the winter bobbing on stormy waves, they host a series of get-togethers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was called the Twenty-Four Elders Revival Meeting, and it was the great occasion of that summer. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Zizmo drives through the gloom, past the octagonal gazebos and the monument of the Civil War Hero, and into the woods where the Ottawa once held their summer camp. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the summer I could duck down and run through the rows undetected, which is what I did on this particular day. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the summer, the water felt wonderful, but in winter, the icy Benguela currents made wading out into the waves a torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Charlie, I’m going to be back at the end of the summer, but before we think about that, let’s just enjoy this last week together. All of us. Okay?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The summer of the mariposas, we abandoned our beloved Lotería for good, neglected our chores, and went completely wild. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was now November, and although the sixth of the month brought a blizzard, the Antarctic summer was reaching its peak. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The city was stacked up in a hot, close grid, and the summer lay heavy over it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1946, Americans everywhere started seeing signs of communist traitors in their midst. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When the shots were fired, the president's aide and his friend since college, Colonel Almon Rockwell, was in the station ready to accompany the Garfields on their summer trip. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was the photograph of Ron and his family that had appeared in the Daily Prophet the previous summer, and there, on Ron’s shoulder, was Scabbers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They had started the lessons the year before, in late summer when the river was lower and the current sluggish. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell him I said this, but he’s a little jealous of you. He goes off for the summer, and I have this great adventure without him.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was going to be on the United States Olympic Team in the 2016 summer games. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “You don’t really want to waste time sleeping on our last day of summer—our last chance to have one more adventure before you-know-what starts.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z With the scorching summer heat, who could blame the poor guy? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The older spirit shimmered like heat on the road in summer. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “No. In Tarbean at least I could beg or steal. I’d managed to survive in the forest for a summer, barely. But over the winter?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The summers were warm, and there were creeks and inlets and streams in the nearby woods where they could catch fish, surreptitiously, of course, because they weren’t supposed to. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky, with stormcloud round the peak dissolving never, not in the brightest summer, to show heaven’s azure there, nor in the fall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer, hundreds of students slept outdoors under a canopy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "Mother said the white raven means it's not summer anymore." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z While the other girls grumbled that their piece rates had dropped so that it had hardly been worth slaving through the summer heat, she kept her silence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z That happened to me when I was back in Greenwood, Mississippi, last summer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z In the mountains, even the summer nights were breezy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It’s just like the rest of central Indiana: hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and the only way to know the weather other times of the year is to walk outside. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It was in shambles, but he’d seen worse this summer on the sightseeing trips his cousins had taken him on. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1937 he was seventy-five years old, and his unsmiling face was arguably the most famous in racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Above ground the night was fresh and clear—not as hot as summer or as cool as autumn. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I run my finger over the words Mia and Jenna’s Log, Keep Away, which we carved into the soft bark a few summers ago using my father’s pocketknife. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z His red bandanna—the one he wouldn’t take off during our last summer together. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Joe, sun bronzed and barefoot in his jersey and shorts, took Joyce, slight and slender in a frilly white summer dress, and twirled her once under his long, outstretched arm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He found her wearing a summer dress, sitting on the lawn in front of the library, chatting with some girlfriends. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I find a pen and write down all my memories of summer fifteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But over the summer, I had been able to save only a thousand dollars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And that was how I came to hear about it, about what had happened between Tommy and Miss Lucy at the start of that summer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Every summer, Ma sent me down to Georgia to stay with my grandmamma for two months. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Pushing upward with what remained of her quavering strength, she heaved it open and emerged in a tangle of bramble with summer’s last shriveled berries still clinging to the vines. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z John Adams spent the summer before he became president reading Cicero’s essays. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Then he lay on his back in the grass and looked up at the dumpling summer clouds. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty sure you got on my shoulders,” I said, remembering her parents’ house in Madrid that same summer we’d gone to the beach. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Even though I asked the question, I knew I was obligated to find a summer sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z At the end of the long summer afternoon, or at the beginning of the long summer evening, the street gradually filled up with traffic, and the sidewalk became crowded with people. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z One summer day, I used one of Ali’s kitchen knives to carve our names on it: “Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “This summer. I don’t want to go. I suck at soccer anyway.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z That summer, when the heat got fierce, it would spoil faster. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I also don’t know how much I should really be investing in this since Arthur is just going to leave at the end of the summer anyway. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z They must think Hudson is a loose cannon and I’m the summer school know-it-all. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1944, at last the 46th Guards were equipped with parachutes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Instead credit went to Joseph Priestley, who discovered the same element independently, but latterly, in the summer of 1774. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “D, enough with the summer school jabs, okay?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Every summer, she selects a rising senior to be in charge of the summer show—to pick the script, cast the players, and direct the whole thing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z During the summer Bernabe had no special early-hour chores to do: he owned cattle, but they grazed on National Forest permits up in the hills; he also harbored a few ratty chickens in the backyard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to pinch myself as I started to walk away from these domestic competitions with gold medals around my neck after training with Akhi over the summer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Dude, you know I’ve come to the city before for basketball camp. And that girl’s, like, a party animal. She was at every party I went to last summer.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Marsha and Glen had found construction work and roofing jobs at the start of the summer, but now it would be weeks before rebuilding jobs would be available. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Finland, which was set to host the summer Games, was reeling. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I did spend a lot of time with Jasmine and Maya during the school year, since we didn’t see each other during the summer, but that didn’t mean I didn’t care about Trevor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Maybe next summer we could go to the country.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You go back to Clairmont tomorrow. You tell Granddad how much you love Windemere. Tell him you want to raise your own kids spending summers here. You tell him.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Last summer we tried to argue that we weren’t alone because we were together. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z On Saturday afternoon Ben rounded the corner of River Street and heard Toomer’s voice calling out in a wailing summer canticle to the last shoppers of the day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers greased up their tractors; Nick Rael ordered garden seeds, summer hoses, irrigation boots; and cows groaned and fell down and bore their calves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all right. Temporary housing for the position. I’m looking for a permanent place for us to move to after the summer.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The only break I got was when Mameh would send me to her relatives in New York during summers, but in fact, my responsibility for the store grew after my brother Sam ran off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When Ophelia returned to the central plateau to work with Farmer in the summer of 1985, she noticed changes in him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Richard had not been born in Maryland, but he was working there, the summer that she met him, as a grocery clerk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z All summer long, kids playing punchball—hitting a pink “Spaldeen” ball with your fist and then running bases drawn in chalk on the streets—had tried to steal home to copy Robinson. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They were standing in a country lane bordered by high, tangled hedgerows, beneath a summer sky as bright and blue as a forget-me-not. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Plus,” says Hannah, “they all have private tutors and go to academic summer camps. You know I love you, Piper, but you are so not in the same league.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It began to take shape in its same curious, light, gravity-defying attitude—the once-folded sheet out of the wistaria Mississippi summer, the cigar smell, the random blowing of the fireflies. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1971, a young geologist named Mike Voorhies was scouting around on some grassy farmland in eastern Nebraska, not far from the little town of Orchard, where he had grown up. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the summer once, when I was on my way to the place where the sea elephants lived, I had seen a young dog that looked like Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, smiling, she shut the door behind her and made her way past chattering students, here for various summer programs, down to the main lobby. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z At the old school, I could only go home summers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Two summers ago we went to Chicago, where the real painting takes up one entire wall of the Art Institute. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Remember the Deuce and a Quarter and how we used to roll around in that giant backseat on our summer outings to the drive-in? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Their two small children, left with their grandmother, were trapped in a town that had been taken over by the Germans during the summer of 1941. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But up until that summer, I had never heard of a real sighting. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I was proud he wasn’t lazy like his own daddy, who spent the summer days on his porch swatting flies and even had him a pet hen to peck up the dead ones. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The natural seasons for chicken are the spring and summer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Viserys came upon her as sudden as a summer storm, his horse rearing beneath him as he reined up too hard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Cleopatra, along with Ptolemy XIV and Caesarion, traveled to Rome in late summer or early fall. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I have no memory at all of that summer’s day, no privileged knowledge of whether that child succeeded in getting the watermelon into her mouth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s going to be a different kind of summer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Violence was like the fog that swept in from San Francisco Bay on summer afternoons to cloak the city in damp shadow. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The kennel was on the ground floor, near the mews, with a loft above it, so that it should be cool in summer and warm in winter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “A lot of people got hurt. Some didn’t make it. Billy Pogo’s unnatural luck saved him, but he lost both his parents. He’s not coming back to the Bureau this summer.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The summer comes and goes and then it’s fall and then winter, and the King dies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Outside, beyond the shadow of the church on the village square, the sun shone down from a cloudless blue sky, and the air was filled with scents of summer. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Better, now that school’s started. The kids were getting pretty antsy the last couple weeks of summer. Too much time on their hands was not a good thing.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “It's Ultimate Saturday to kick off summer vacay,” Gracie says, grinning. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She shifts her weight back and forth a bit before saying, “It was a weird summer.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the summer, when the peak of the strawberry season was over and when work was slow, Ito gave us Saturday afternoons off. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Anyway, I thought maybe she’d notice that I’d been lifting weights over the summer, that I was taller, that I really wasn’t a little boy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As she lay in the dark, her thoughts flitted here and there, never staying for long, like the glow of fireflies on a late summer’s eve. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I spent most of the summers at my grandparents’ house while my mother took classes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Water as blue as a summer sky stretched beneath us, and giant ships dotted the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was a summer night, and the dogs of the town barked for a time, and then ceased. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That summer, things blossomed further when Gary came for a weeklong visit while the kids were with their grandmother. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Houses built in the benign spring and early summer took waves in their second- story windows. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been invited to attend a special three-week summer orientation program, meant to close a “preparation gap,” giving certain incoming freshmen extra time and help settling into college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I could spend the summer practicing baking to get ready, which would give me something to do without Trevor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z In the quiet of the summer night, she could hear her sister praying. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Blackavar, do you know that earlier this summer, before we had the benefit of your experience, we went for days across every kind of country—fields, heather, woods, downs—and never lost one rabbit?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember that wonderful seafood place down the beach from our summer house? Didn't they have the best shrimp?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The three trees were still there, looking a bit like little boys after their summer haircuts, but still there. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z In September the first cool nights came, then the days were cool and the leaves on the trees in the park began to turn color and we knew the summer was gone. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There were some days, ever since the summer, when the whole feel of Jack seemed to change. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Yes. I have a little plot of vegetables. Not now, obviously; it's winter. But in the summer. Why?” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z There don't tend to be a lot of crackling fireplaces during the Tennessee summer, and Colin didn't smoke, so no matches were on hand. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But I remember it was a scorching summer day and I was driving up a rutted dirt road, nothing on either side but sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The summer after my mother ran off with the bald podiatrist in the convertible, Charlie Kahn’s dad let him build a tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Just some stupid tourist here to entertain him for the summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Yet the day was so warm it could have passed for summer. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I thought I’d see her during the summers, but she spent them on the East Coast as a junior counselor at some hoity-toity camp. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z "A conquest that lasted a summer," his uncle pointed out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s summer day. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be no summer; there would be no autumn or winter or spring—only this never-ending grayness, as if all the color had been leached from the world. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Last summer, just before my grandfather married Margaret, my mother and father got divorced, and Mother moved the two of us to upstate New York where she had grown up. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The summer of 1918 is the most bloody and the most terrible. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mommy also taught summer school for the extra money, so she couldn’t just leave five kids at home alone all day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “It’s summer, Dad. I don’t want to hear about work.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Our first essay. Please write about your summer vacation.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z That first summer was Ifemelu's summer of waiting; the real America, she felt, was just around the next corner she would turn. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We worked at our dusty tasks beneath the summer sun; later, we played for tavern dances. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Out was where the air was cool, this summer morning, although the sun was warm. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Spring, summer, and fall— save certain holy days—my mother and I, like every other Stromford villager, worked his fields from dawn to dusk. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He picked strawberries with us one summer when we worked for Ito. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He’s playing football for Penn State but he needed the summer to get his grades right to play football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “This is about the summer when I went to Europe.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He will not lose the whole summer with me or there will be lawyers involved. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The section was surrounded by a metal fence topped with a band of electrified chicken wire which during the cool summer mornings would be black with roasted swallows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Whatever it says on the calendar, Florida has de facto summer. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The universe wouldn’t get us together for just one summer, right? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z So she did not see him until the following summer, after a full year. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s summer vacation, and Mama never gets up before we do when there’s no school. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Well, here’s the rest of it. \\ . . there was no trace of his camp on a second trip, and the warden believes that the young man returned to his home at the end of the summer.’ My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “This year’s summer program has already begun. The kids’ll already be assigned to rooms by now.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Moss had only been here once when it wasn’t packed, early on a weekday during the summer when his mom had a day off. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I have to, I guess, especially since Rowdy is having one of the worst summers of his life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Let me guess. Hudson was a jerk about summer school.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Rajesh had witnessed those rioting mobs in their tidal spate that summer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The aunts began to blur into one another as the days of the summer ticked past. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Julia's doing a summer job there, filing, answering the phone, and typing letters. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I never missed the annual Easter egg hunt held at Kelly Ingram Park or vacation Bible school, which was held for two weeks every summer. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When they first became homeless, it was early summer, and they slept on park benches or in the bushes that lined park paths. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Planning for the war game began in earnest in the summer of 2000. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One warm day, she told herself, does not make a summer. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And hopefully, Uncle Jet could have one this summer! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She'd never met Allie or anything, because that was her first summer in Maine--before that, she went to Cape Cod- -but I told her quite a lot about him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The pews were decrepit, the bills were once so in arrears the electricity was nearly turned off, and the padre hadn’t installed air-conditioning, despite summer temperatures that reach 120 degrees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I told Samuel I had seen the golden carp that summer and he was very pleased. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had probably seen him before at Tres Marias, on one of her summer journeys with her grandfather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually there was a good supply of salt fish kept in barrels, but fish had not been plentiful the past summer, so now the supply was meager. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1876 in Montana while George Armstrong Custer and his troops were being cut down at Little Big Horn, Cope was out hunting for bones nearby. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So in a way, going to Norway every summer was like going home. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I can stop myself, I say, "'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' becomes 'u r hawt like august.'" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z And the bodies were an aspiration, lucrative as Indian land, a veranda, a beautiful wife, or a summer home in the mountains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Perhaps I come back next year, in high summer also, to teach the boy again.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Even though there are a lot fewer trainees than we started with at the beginning of summer, the place is packed with tutors and coaches of all kinds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I think you like it better this way. You get away with more. You should have spent the summer like I did, Julie, and then you’d appreciate home and family.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Only the sky had changed, washed clear of the dust and haze which had swirled off the red clay flats the summer before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But even if they came soon, before next summer, I could not live without a roof or a place to store my food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of winter all of a sudden we’d get a summer day. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That would have been the summer after my father died, when I first began feeding my family, when my whole being was occupied with battling starvation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d trimmed his curly brown hair and beard for the summer, and his lower half, which was a white stallion, was flecked with mud and grass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A summer visitor enters a hardware store in Maine and buys a large number of expensive items. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He also learned to use the stems of foxtail grass to spear grasshoppers, longheaded locusts, and dragonflies, which he roasted over a fire in late summer and autumn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insects injurious to trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Over the summer, he got a lot bigger and taller. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Initially, it simply seemed like an interesting story—a young swimmer from America who longed to compete in the summer games, but her nationality was in question because she had been born on a ship. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The last two years, with their summer droughts and winter storms, and now the unending grayness, had been heartbreaking. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Winters are so long here in this country I thought I would never be able to wear sandals again. It is such a relief that summer is finally here.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z By the end of the summer, Felicia is dancing infrequently and her pronouncements are few. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So, anyway, on that hot summer day, Rowdy and I walked the five miles from my house to Turtle Lake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Last summer my mom and I spruced up the old cupboards with a coat of high-gloss white and threw down some chunky black and white checked linoleum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She and her father usually went to a few games during the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The next year saw even more fires spring up, mainly because the summer had been unusually dry. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The first week of that summer, my mother and I had been inseparable. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It had happened to Medgar Evers the past summer, and the list of Civil Rights martyrs was growing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For three whole weeks of summer vacation they hadn’t let me play baseball or go fishing or anything. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “No, but my mother did. This is where I spent my summers,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ned had been gone for months, and for Jinx the warm summer days dragged. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He plants the seeds after harvest in late summer for the crop the following year. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Gramps left the house all the time, and I had barely been home all summer, so why would he be here now, for me? We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z What kind of kid does that on the first day of summer? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z By the end of the summer, I noticed they were going out of their way to avoid me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta didn’t seem to care that we were in some sort of Black Panther summer camp, learning to become Black Panthers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was thirteen and intended to spend the summer studying and playing chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But many did die, from the summer heat or from snakebites; some even died the very day they hatched. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z It sounded like this would be summer camp when you all told us about it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Around their heads, in the sweetness of a breeze that already smelled of summer, a dozen children blew up their blazing orange bananas and planets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Living with my parents for the summer, I remained an academic—a kind of anthropologist in the family kitchen, searching for evidence of our ‘cultural ties’ as we ate dinner together. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Ms. Petosa could sit here, too. That kind of sounds like the word ‘petal,’ which I think of as a summer thing, too.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He’d only remind her of the happy months last summer, before he had sailed. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1953—all praise is due to Allah—I was named Detroit Temple Number One’s Assistant Minister. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, I was glad to be away from NYC for the whole summer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z We talked a lot on the phone, but we didn’t see each other very much those first few weeks of summer. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Makes his clothes easier to label for summer camp. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The scorching days of summer were ending, and the days were becoming more comfortable. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I imagined myself riding a tan horse into the summer sunset, swatting any mosquito that tried to sting my awesomeness. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the spring and summer, the green ears of corn sit out in plain view with all the other fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But they went anyway, on summer nights after supper, when the crickets smelled the coolness and started singing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The tension radiated from the surface of the photograph like heat off a summer sidewalk. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The outer leaves were going red, yellow, and orange, while the inner ones still held the deep green of summer, so that the trees appeared candy-coated. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “No, I’m just here for a summer program.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I make a picture of Joy to welcome her back when summer vacation is over. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Crime offers internship programs and summer jobs and opportunities for advancement. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then the good land did again its healing work and the sun shone on him and healed him and the warm winds of summer wrapped him about with peace. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Harry Potter! Where to begin? I feel I barely scratched the surface when we met over the summer!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Plowing over the soft earth like a fly on summer butter and holding his head clear, he suddenly found himself face to face with Blackavar, who sank his front teeth into his throat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Judy always wears blue jeans, torn up into shorts once summer comes, and a necklace of small seashells around her throat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The good news was a salve for a difficult summer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Nothing, however, would induce him to spend a summer surveying it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As soon as her work was done in the late summer, Lin left Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But like most families in Harlem we could not tolerate unexpected financial burdens, and in the summer of 1951 we experienced two. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I keeping thinking about the summer I turned eight. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We hadn’t seen one another since last summer when we vacationed together at Stone Harbor, New Jersey, and it struck me right away how much taller Kevin was. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Her heart, as on that bright summer day when he had first spoken to her, gave a terrible bound and then was still, with an awful, wounded stillness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She must be done with her back-to-school meetings and was heading out to enjoy the rest of the day, but she still took the time to stop and ask, “Did you have a good summer?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z All last summer Baby had come out in that pink soirée costume and danced in the middle of the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I should be happy that I get a chance to see my friends after not seeing them all summer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “I told you I didn’t want you talking about creepy dead stuff this summer,” says Liberty. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Many freelancers rotate in these weekly assignments, and we probably won’t see them again this summer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When the summer ended, I returned to BYU with only two thousand dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Coeds on summer break grabbed tin cans and began going door-to-door in their neighborhoods. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That means I’ve got no choice but to call her at work about going to camp this summer. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Couldn’t afford the summer class, then?” he asks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Pretty girls in their best summer dresses begged for funds with which to equip troops, and they blushed happily at the enthusiastic cheers of the young men for whose cause they pled. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z During the summer before seventh grade, Monday somehow started to grow a body without me. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She sighed, then she began to sing the summer song again. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z Catelyn remembered die day when her boys had found the pups in the late summer snows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It would be next summer before we got our Oracle bade. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I ended the year glad to be released from the hot classrooms but with few prospects for the summer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Pretty summer day, you can’t think of anything better to do than hassle some helpless little girl? That’s flat- out pathetic, son.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Ernest and his crews tinkered with the setup through the spring and into the summer while Conant and Bush pressed for faster progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Then don't let her go on a long journey this summer. She's not yet strong enough. And stop her smoking those vile black cigars." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe in the summer we can go fishing and swimming,” I said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He had seen her as a luminous summer apparition, removed from the brutal demands of the world, different from all other women he had known. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother raised me until this past summer. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We stepped into our imaginary roles every single day for an entire summer and into the new school year—at least until the incident with the clubhouse. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You’re very special to have come through all this. I thought you deserved a special summer outfit.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We headed out into the summer night, ready for adventure. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On the backstretch of Vancouver Race Course in the summer of 1927, a friendship was forged in the crucible of the racetrack and adolescence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That summer, right up until the warm weather faded, we developed this odd way of listening to music together in the fields. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When we arrive at the restaurant, Harold & Fay, Saint Sarah is waiting by the doors, wearing a flowery summer dress with high platform sandals. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Instead, when the fever rampaged through Philadelphia in summers to come, vast tent encampments were erected for the poor by the Schuylkill River and in the Northern Liberties. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A deep wood grew outside, with summer leaves of alder and black poplar, pungent cypress. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think it will work out. Looking at you, I can tell you’re not going to let any doors shut in your face. Listen, do you have a summer job, an internship, something like that?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But in the summers Grandma took down the stove that heated her front room, so there was space to leave a card table up. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules. Whoever nominated you should’ve filled out the proper waiver if your school year runs long. There’s always next summer—” He finally looks up at me and his eyes go wide. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z So I kept delaying week by week, while I went on preparing, until the summer came and I decided I was as ready as I’d ever be. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like the beginning of a summer holiday. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z When my wife, Marie, and I were vacationing in Australia one summer, we decided to visit a site with well-preserved Aboriginal rock paintings in the desert near the town of Menindee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the money he made from lobstering and cutting ice out of Wash Pond and selling his paintings to the summer people, Osh had bought nails, a hammer, and whatever else he lacked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z But she was too, of course, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's 'blackshirts' organization, and the very little contact his lordship ever had with Sir Oswald occurred during those few weeks of that summer. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Daddy Bailey invited me to spend the summer with him in southern California and I was jumpy with excitement. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Just this summer. We were in different dorms.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z So up to a hilltop I trudged each day, and the heavy heat of summer made me glad for the bigger winds I found there. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The summer did drag on, and we were very chipper when it came to an end. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Much of Russia lay in ruins that summer. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And in the late night, as the early summer sun is just beginning its rise behind the hills, I hear a rumble. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I know you hate when they go away, but you still manage to have fun during the summer, right?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Mama tells us about this place called Sunrise Recovery Center, where she’ll be for the first part of the summer. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Last summer, before Luke had turned into Kronos and everything went sour, there had been a few times when I thought maybe ... well, that we might get past the strangle-each-other phase. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The same Sir Humphrey Gilbert who brutalized the Irish during the colonization of Ulster was placed in charge of the first English colonial settlement in North America in Newfoundland in the summer of 1583. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Connolly talked about how he had hiked nearly half the trail in 1987, at the height of summer, and had gone days without seeing anyone, and Jim and Chuck heartily seconded this. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the rest of the United States, drive-ins were usually a seasonal phenomenon, closing at the end of every summer. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “Because it’s not like a wedding. It’s not like, ‘Ohh, I like summer colors. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z We grow apart, bit by bit, and eventually our summer idyll is ruined forever. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The day the truancy officers came for the children of Rose Hill Plantation, I hid in the summer kitchen with Auntie Aggie. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Or one of those summer makeovers, someone who leaves in June looking like a little girl and returns in September as a full-bodied woman, a ten-week miracle? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Up until this summer, I’d only had faith in the facts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He has one great fear—that of getting his head wet, so that summer or winter he ordinarily wears a rain hat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sixteen the summer he figured how to make an almanac. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you know I had a baby sister this summer?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They went up the slopes of the cone-shaped peaks in the summer, when the deer were reddish brown, the hair short and shining while they browsed in meadows above the treeline to avoid the heat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A chastened man, an older man, he remembered: All summer, to begin with, he felt elated. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He continued: “Saturdays they come in nine to one. In the summer, it’s eight to two.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was still summer, but my hand felt ice cold as I gripped the knob to open the door, it was like opening my own coffin. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z And each year rain and snow beat in and the sun of summer shone in and spoiled their robes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Beverages during the hot summer became my chore, largely because no one else wanted them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z That combination of high rainfall and summer rains gives Japan the highest plant productivity of any nation in the temperate zones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I heard Crouch’s confession, and I heard Harry’s account of what happened after he touched the Triwizard Cup; the two stories make sense, they explain everything that has happened since Bertha Jorkins disappeared last summer.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Out back there was a swing with a seat wide enough for him and his father and Thula to ride three at a time on warm summer nights. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On Fifth Avenue that summer, demolition was soon to begin on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, clearing the way for a skyscraper of unprecedented proportions, the Empire State Building. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z We talk about her online friends, and the summer courses she’s been taking online, and the places she’s seen online that she dreams about going to someday. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “No . . . but it is the weekend, in the middle of the summer.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The three of us had gone over the summer, right before Jenna had left for Texas. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Many of the older children were in summer school until around noon, making the mornings especially boring. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Lindsey Lloyd had just always been there, part of the summer swim team experience. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z But without students occupying those desks and their homework tacked on the wall, that empty summer classroom seemed laden with the memory of past students and past learning that took place within those walls. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z This scene played night after night, all summer long. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the daytime, most of the traffic is commuters, some school kids, always a few tourists, many more in the summer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Approaching the corner, I can’t believe how ordinary the bus stop looks in the summer, only another bend of sidewalk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Rumor had it that the corporation had slowed the clocks to squeeze even more minutes out of the long summer shift. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “You know how long it took me to get my hair this color? All summer, Mr. Jackson. Mexican hair ain’t easy to dye.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Lillian knew about marshes from girlhood summers spent on the Georgia coast. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If he could only have died on that summer’s night when he had left number four, Privet Drive, for the last time, when the noble phoenix-feather wand had saved him! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t we see you at the pool this summer?” asked Sally, tossing her blond hair. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyways, we started dating in the summer of 1998. And your father took me out to the Seafair Powwow in Discovery Park.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z |
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