RED KAYAK
By Priscilla Cummings
Puffin Books, 2004
Category: Middle grade fiction
Okay, that last post was a little … smug? Snarky? Presumptuous? Let me try again …
Brady, is a good kid. So are his friends, J.T. and Digger. They live on the Chesapeake Bay where they can crab and oyster fish together in summer, skate together in winter, and help one another with chores (endless chores) all year round. But even good kids make mistakes, and this book—this incredible book—shows readers how hard owning up to those mistakes can be.
RED KAYAK is intense, gut-wrenching, and difficult to put aside once you’ve begun. I have added it to my “Favorite Books Ever” list and cannot recommend it highly enough.
Now, as I suggested earlier … read this book!