Summer Solstice: An Essay you may think you know

you may think you know this story--but you don't

but no one can anticipate what's coming down the pike

models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways

On their latest mission to save the world

"--School Library Journal (starred review)

Summer Solstice: An Essay you may think you knowSummer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone much too soon but they're captured here, in loving sensuous prose that's both personal and universal, for you to find any time of year. Experience the most evocative tribute to the meaning of the season, a season whose magical feeling stays with us even in winter. Where does that feeling come from? What is