{"product_id":"9781480471535","title":"The Birds of Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003eSummer is just a teenager, but sometimes she feels like the parent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen-year-old Summer McIntyre lives with her mother, Oriole, and seven-year-old sister, Sparrow, in a trailer in Alvarro Bay City, overlooking the Pacific. Oriole is a Northern California flower child who fantasizes about being at one with nature and forgets about needing money. Even though she’s only fifteen, Summer is good at being Mom.\u003cbr\u003eThat is, until Oriole’s new boyfriend upsets the precarious balance in their lives. Suddenly Summer has to protect her family as she copes with the dangers of drug-smuggling, blackmailing, and even terrorism.\u003cbr\u003eSet during the 1980s, \u003ci\u003eThe Birds of Summer \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a teenager with the responsibilities of adulthood thrust upon her shoulders, who learns how to adapt . . . and how to survive. Winner of the PEN Literary Award and the Parents’ Choice Award.\u003cbr\u003eThis ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.","brand":"Open Road Media Teen \u0026 Tween","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173765857520,"sku":"9781480471535","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480471535_p0.jpg?v=1763619837","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480471535","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}