Bird Lake Moon

Bibliographic Information: Henkes, Kevin. (2010). Bird Lake Moon. New York, New York: HarperCollins.

Annotation: This is a story about two boys who meet purely by chance. One, Mitch, is dealing with his father having just left to live with another woman and Spencer, who lost his brother from drowning in Bird Lake six years earlier.

Genre: Audio Book

Grade Level: 4th to 7th

Readers Who Will Like This Book: Readers who have been touched by divorce or the death of a loved one as well as stories where chance meetings are the beginning of an unlikely friendship.

Personal Response and Rating: I rate this a 3. Kevin Henkes writes at a level that is easy to understand. I liked how it was almost two stories in one. One was told from Mitch's perspective and the other from Spencer's. It is the boys who are the focus, not the adults, though the adults have certainly influenced the events that led up to the two boys meeting.

Prereading Question: Have you ever experienced the loss of someone in your life, not necessarily because they died?