Willow Creek Summer

By Kathleen Wiebe

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550501690
• ISBN13: 9781550501698
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Coteau Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Strongly recommended for young readers ages 12 and older

Fifteen year old Tina Wiens has been raised in the rural community of Homer, Ontario within a strict Mennonite tradition of hard work, no dancing, no dating, and a strong devotion to the church. Now that she is coming of age, Tina is beginning to resent such a restrictive existence. When her older sister becomes pregnant out of wedlock and is shunned by the church, Tina questions the beliefs she has clung to all her life. Tina escapes the tensions in her family and community by spending the summer with her father's aunt, Tante Tina, who has a farm along the Niagara Escarpment. There she works and carves out her own sort of independence and understanding of the world. But before she can be fully an adult she must confront a dark secret from her past that threatens to tear apart her family and her community. Willow Creek Summer is a superbly written novel strongly recommended for young readers ages 12 and older.