Someone Like Summer
Publisher
HarperTeen
Publication Year
2007
ISBN
9780061140990
Pages
263 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Diversity Topics
Racial Diversity; Interracial; interracial relationship
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
Hispanic / White
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Booklist Top 10 Romance Fiction for Youth, 2007
Booklist Top 10 Youth Romances, 2007
Middle and Junior High Schoool Library Catalog, Ninth Edition Supplement 2008, 2008
Senior High Core Collection Supplement to the Seventeenth Edition 2008, 2008
Keywords
immigrants; prejudice; fathers and daughters; soccer; war; Hurricane Katrina
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Kerr, M.E., "Someone Like Summer" (2007). Diverse Families. 921.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/921