Missing May

Cynthia Rylant

About this book

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

Subjects

  • aunts
  • aunts in fiction
  • children's fiction
  • criticism and interpretation
  • death
  • death, fiction
  • death in fiction
  • fiction
  • girls, fiction
  • grief
  • grief, fiction
  • grief in fiction
  • joy and sorrow
  • juvenile fiction
  • mystery and detective stories
  • newbery medal
  • readers (secondary)
  • west virginia, fiction
  • west virginia in fiction