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Summer of '69 / Elin Hilderbrand.

Summer of sixty-nine (other title)
Summer of 1969 (other title)
Hilderbrand, Elin, (author.).

Summary:

Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316420013
  • ISBN: 0316420018
  • ISBN: 9780316420006
  • Physical Description: 425 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2019]
Subject: Family vacations > Fiction.
Social conflict > Fiction.
Families > Massachusetts > Nantucket Island > Fiction.
Civil rights movements > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Nineteen sixty-nine, A.D. > Fiction.
Siblings.
United States > History > 1961-1969 > Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.) > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 155 of 176 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 3 of 3 copies available at Toe River Valley Regional Library .

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  • 2 current holds with 176 total copies.
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Avery County Morrison Public Library FIC HIL (Text) 31111003010145 Adult Fiction Available -
Mitchell County Public Library FIC HIL (Text) 32222002838631 Adult Fiction Available -
Spruce Pine Public Library FIC HIL (Text) 34444003192275 Adult Fiction Available -

Summary: Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country.