cover image My Wartime Summers

My Wartime Summers

Jane Cutler. Farrar Straus Giroux, $4.95 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-374-45463-0

PW praised the ""laconic wit"" and ""convincing"" period details of this episodic novel about a girl growing up during WW II, but expressed reservations about the ""elliptical"" episodic structure and adult sensibility. Ages 10-up. (Mar.)