The time by the lake is everything perfect about a childhood summer…and maybe it also holds the answers Max needs. Give this tender middle grade novel to readers who love the mystery, friendships, and touches of magic in novels by Rebecca Stead and Laurel Snyder!
To get Max and Rosie’s minds off their mother’s mysterious disappearance, their grandmother, Mozelle, suggests that they visit the old log cabin where their mom spent her summers as a child. This is a place where, when it gets dark, you go to bed. But according to Mozelle, their mother had her happiest dreams during her nights at the lake.
That first night, Max and Rosie travel in their dreams to an almost impossibly beautiful place where they meet a wonderful new group of friends. But was it really just a dream? Or is there something extraordinary and magical about this compound by the lake?
As Max slowly grasps what is really going on, he wonders if he might have found the key to the mystery of his mother’s disappearance—and how to bring her safely home.
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Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of more than fifty books for children, noted especially for her series of picture book biographies. Ten of her books have been honored as Notable Books by the American Library Association and she has twice received both the Boston Globe / Horn Book Award and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Golden Kite Award. Diane has worked as a medical illustrator, a graphic designer for Dell Publishing, and an art director at G. P. Putnam’s Sons, winning three design awards from the New York Book Show. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, Peter Vennema. She has three grown children and one granddaughter.
Tim Campbell, winner of AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a narrator and actor based in Los Angeles, California. He studied at the University of California and earned a BA in music and theater and a certification from the prestigious Great Books program at Pepperdine University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is also a classically trained singer and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Opera Chorus, as well as on studio soundtracks for film and television.