# A Summer to Die

**Author:** Lois Lowry
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 1977
**Page count:** 154
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780395253380`
**ISBN-10:** `0395253381`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-summer-to-die
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters in fiction
- death
- death in fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### California Young Reader Medal

- **recommended** · 9th grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1981 winner (Young Adult)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1981 winner (Young Adult)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1981 winner (Young Adult)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1981 winner (Young Adult)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)

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