One Alley Summer: A Novel of Friendship and Growing Up

by Anne Ylvisaker

The summer before middle school is a time of anxiety and change. A pitch-perfect novel in verse about one girl's wish to simultaneously break free and to belong.

In the summer before her first year of middle school, word-chanting, rope-skipping Phee skips her way to imagined fame, writes down her innermost secret thoughts from the safety of a treehouse, and imagines in horror that her new classmates will eat her alive. Suddenly,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1958325406
• ISBN13: 9781958325407
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Marble Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7