Mitchell, Saundra. Shadowed Summer. New York: Delacorte Books. 2009. Print.Annotation:
"A creamy flashed passed in front of me, leaving the shadow of a face made up mostly of dark eyes... I heard a voice. 'Where y'at, Iris?'" In the middle of summer vacation, best friends Iris and Collette decide to spend their day in a graveyard casting make belief spells and pretending to speak to the dead. Only for Iris, she meets a real ghost that leads to a local unsolved mystery case.
Justification for Nomination:
Iris is a fourteen year old girl living in small town, boring Ondine, Louisiana. Without anything to do for summer vacation, Iris and her best friend Collette decide to head down to the town's graveyard and play psychic. As Iris was casting a make belief spell, she hears a voice asking for her. With the voice stuck in her mind and a visual of the young man who spoke to her, Iris is determined to find out who he was and what happened to him. With the help of Collette and another friend, Ben, they run into many walls and barriers for answers. However, that will not stop Iris until she finds the truth about the missing of Elijah Landry.
This novel was full of suspense. Saundra Mitchell does a great job at creating descriptive settings to go along with the story plot. The dialogues between the main protagonist and supporting characters are specially crafted to fit the age of young adults, but the novel itself is written well enough for adults to read. Reading this novel gave me chills down the spine and had me turning my head around a few times. The plot is structured well and fast paced that leave readers at the edge of their seat wanting to read pages after pages to find out what comes next. Finally, to read what Iris discovers at the end is just shocking and unpredictable; and that is what makes this novel so worth your time to delve into.
Genre: Thriller; Suspense; Mystery
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