{"id":12613,"date":"2022-03-09T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:02:01","slug":"this-summer-could-be-the-best-ever-for-the-islanders-by-mary-alice-monroe-angela-may-mg-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12613","title":{"rendered":"This summer could be the best ever for THE ISLANDERS! by Mary Alice Monroe & Angela May (MG book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No videogames or wi-fi?
Driving a golf cart! Or a boat?!
Maybe summer will be okay\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a military kid<\/a>, twelve-year-old Jake knows that staying with his grandma Honey will help Mom as she’s at the Army hospital with Dad, but having no internet or cellphone (don’t ask) will be terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, two kids his age are on Dewees Island<\/a> for the summer: Macon, a facts-spouting Black guy from Atlanta, whose mom is on bed rest waiting for her baby to arrive, and nature-fanatic Lovie, who drives her own boat over from Isle of Palms every day to stay with her aunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honey doesn’t seem herself after Jake’s granddad died a while ago, and her house on stilts needs lots of care. Dad grew up here, roaming these woods and beaches, learning to drive a boat, leaving his nature journal and favorite books in the loft bedroom where Jake is staying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing chores for Honey still leaves Jake plenty of time to explore the South Carolina coastal island with Lovie and Macon. Lots of lessons too – driving the golf cart, learning his way around a boat, recognizing loggerhead turtle tracks<\/a>, avoiding alligators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An incident gets the three friends assigned to Dawn Patrol, checking the beaches early, early every morning for new turtle nests that the licensed specialists verify and encircle with warning tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake sketches in his own nature journal, writes illustrated letters to Dad, and listens to the worries that Lovie and Macon confide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Jake earn his boating license before summer ends?
How can they keep predators away from the turtle nests?
How fast can Dad recover from the IED explosion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes the island seems like paradise, other times it’s not. For these three friends, this will be a summer to remember! First in a new series, followed by Search for Treasure<\/em> in June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s your favorite summer-with-friends memory?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Islanders (Islanders, book 1) \/ Mary Alice Monroe & Angela May. Aladdin\/ Simon & Schuster, 2021. [author site<\/a>] [co-author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No videogames or wi-fi?Driving a golf cart! Or a boat?!Maybe summer will be okay\u2026 As a military kid, twelve-year-old Jake knows that staying with his grandma Honey will help Mom as she’s at the Army hospital with Dad, but having no internet or cellphone (don’t ask) will be terrible. Luckily, two kids his age are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,237,19],"tags":[90,163,272,124,22,4,106,5,16,40,44,185,43,49,194,184,85,256,56,15,21,241,73,35,6,8,61],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-african-american","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-boats","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-military","tag-mothers","tag-nature","tag-ocean","tag-reading","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-south-carolina","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12638,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions\/12638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}