Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780440416241
ISBN number: 0440416248
Label: Yearling
Manufacturer: Yearling
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: June 13, 2000
Publishing house: Yearling
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Sale Popularity Level: 328273
Studio: Yearling
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It's 1816 and Remembrance 'Mem' Nye and her family are going through a cold, hard summer in their new home in western New York. There's barely any food since Papa's crops were destroyed by the late
season frosts. Mem's mama has never gotten used to their new home. It's even harder for her to cope after she gives birth to baby Lily. Papa puts Mem in charge of caring for the baby, her younger brother, and their sick Mama. Though Mem struggles, it's hard to do the chores and watch them every moment. Then the worst happens . . . one stormy night Mama and Lily are gone.
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Frozen Summer by Mary Jane Auch is about a young girl named, Remembrance Nye and her family. They have recently moved to the Genesee Country in western New York in search for a better life. Remembrance is a very young girl who feels as though she is more of a burden than a helper. But, when Remembrance's mother has a baby and becomes unfit, she tries to take on the responsibilities of taking care of her newborn sister, her little brother, cooking, and cleaning. "Mem' also is determined to nurse her mother back to her usual self. Things become even worse for Mem when her mother disappears with the baby, Lily, on a stormy night. Mem believes that it is her duty to bring her mother and her baby sister back home safely.
I really liked this book and thought that it was is very appealing because it tells about a little girl who feels left out and too young to know anything, but when things get bad everything depends on her.
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Twelve-year-old Remembrance Nye (Mem to her family) seems clumsy and more a burden than a helper when Mama gives birth to a baby sister in their primitive one-room cabin in the wilderness of Western New York State in 1816. But Mama is terribly homesick for her family in Connecticut; she all but ignores the pitiful baby in her private anguish. Gradually Mem realizes that her mother's mind is at risk; Mrs. Nye wanders in and out of reality and sobs in loneliness because her pioneering husband forced her to sacrfice all the comforts of home for the
loneliness and social desolation of the Genesee Valley.
The odd weather with sudden freezing spells and even snow in June echoes the family's sense of doom. Many pioneers assume that blame God is meting out just punishment for sinners everywhere, thought a few suggest it was Ben Franklin's tampering with the flow of electricity which precipitated such disaster, as crops are lost and famine looms as a grim possibility. How can Mem balance caring for an infant sister whom her mother seems to reject, assume all the woman's chores of tending house and go to school as well--for she wishes to become a school teacher herself someday?
Not all strangers are as dangerous as the local busybody, but the worst threat to the family is the instability of Mrs. Nye. Mem comes of age that frozen summer, when the crops fail and she loses the benefit of maternal contact. As one kind neighbor explains it: the only way to survive in a frontier settlement is through cooperation and charity toward one's neighbors, even those you don't really know. It truly takes a community to raise one child. At the conclusion of this solemn historical novel the author explains how she came to write this story, sharing her research into the causes and reactions to the frozen summer of 1816. A sobering read for anyone studying the early Eastern frontier.
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This is the second book in the trilogy I've read and I must say it's a bit bleak. It was assigned to my 10 year old's class (mainly because we live in "Genesee Country") and I'm glad I read it first. Although rich in historical accuracy, Mem's mother's depression is a real turn off for some younger children. I found both this book and "The Journey To Nowhere" quite morose with little joy to redeem them. I did enjoy it as an adult, but they are written with kids in mind and their harshness can be quite unsettling.
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The book Frozen Summer is sad, eventful, and exciting . It's about a girl named Rememberance Nye. Her family had moved to New York the year before, and her mother had just given birth to a baby girl named Lily in the middle of an unusual blizard in the middle of June. A summer frost killed all of their crops, and all that remained were sweet peas. Rememberance's (Mem's) mother started having unusual spills. She wasn't in the proper condition to take care of a new baby. Mem had to give up going to school so she could take care of her mother, brother, and little sister.
My favorite part was when Mem's teacher came to live with mem's family and helped take care of baby Lily. I hope you will read this book by Mary Jane Auch, I believe you will enjoy it as I have.
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Have you every thought about how life was like back in the 1800's? Well, if you would like to experience that, then you should read Frozen Summer. The story is about a family that face hardships after hardships. The family's very first hardship is when they leave from their family. Then a baby girl is born and the mother gets sick. She can't tend for the baby and the little boy so the main character has to take care of her sister and brother and also the house work. This is truly a good story if you are up to reading a story that will make you like your life 100% more.
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