This is a story of finding your place, learning about feelings, and navigating relationships. And, of course, they have a Bigfoot to find! The disappearance of Tobin’s father still haunts him, though he doesn’t like to talk about it. For Lem, there’s the grief of losing her mother and having to leave her life in the city to live with an estranged grandfather. Without internet and cell phones, things were simpler, freer, and for Lemonade Liberty Witt (Lem, for short) and Tobin Sky, this gives them plenty of room to figure things out. Lemons takes place in a small town in California in a time where kids spent the summer riding around on their bikes having adventures and phones were still attached to the wall with cords. The people, the relationships, the feelings are all so genuine and relatable, you could almost put them in any time period. There is a timeless quality to Savage’s writing – which sounds like a cliché, but it really wasn’t until about half way through that I realized that this wasn’t taking place in the present day. Why I Finished It: To find out if Bigfoot exists, of course! (Kidding…sort of…) From the beginning, we were all captivated by this story – myself, my 2nd grader, and my PreKinder kiddo. My son likes mythical creatures, and I was curious as to how lemons would play into a Bigfoot story. I have my go-to authors, but we’d pretty much exhausted those, so I was browsing some middle-grade novel blogs and Lemons jumped out, probably because of the upside-down Bigfoot on the front. Why I Picked It Up: This summer, we went through a LOT of audio books.
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