# Twisted Summer

**Author:** Willo Davis Roberts
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1998
**Page count:** 189
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780689806001`
**ISBN-10:** `0689806000`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/twisted-summer
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder which had occurred there the previous year.

## Themes

- murder
- beaches
- mystery and detective stories

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1999 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1999 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1999 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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