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      The Summer of the Swans

      by Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars
      Published
      Jan 1970
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Sometimes you don't know what you love—until you almost lose it.

      Sara's fourteenth summer was turning out to be the most confusing time of her life. Up until then, things had flowed smoothly, like the gliding swans on the lake. Now she wanted to fly away from everything—her beautiful older sister, her bossy Aunty Willie, her remote father, and, most of all, from herself.

      But could she fly away from Charlie? She loved her younger brother in a way she couldn't understand, though sometimes she grew tired of his neediness. But when Charlie himself took flight, Sara suddenly knew what she had to do....

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      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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