Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer

By (author): Leslie Gentile

AUTHOR

Leslie Gentile

Leslie Gentile is a singer/songwriter of Northern Salish, Tuscarora and Scottish heritage. She performs with her children in The Leslie Gentile Band, and with one of her sisters in The Half White Band. Her debut novel, Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer, won the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize and the Jean Little First Novel Award and was short-listed for the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award, the MYRCA Sundogs Award, the SYRCA Diamond Willow Award, and many more. Gentile currently lives on Vancouver Island with her husband.

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“With its leisurely pace, this novel feels exactly like a child’s summer … Gentile’s characters are richly realized, and the story takes on challenging material — abuse, identity, racism and more—in ways that respect its audience … The story is approachable and good-natured, wearing its subversive subtext lightly as it presents an unredeemed bad mother, a plot detail that involves questioning the Indian Act and an upending of the white saviour trope … A middle-grade summer story that plays with the genre in ways both satisfyingly familiar and refreshingly new.”

Awards

  • Rocky Mountain Book Award 2022, Short-listed
  • City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize 2021, Winner
  • Forest of Reading – Silver Birch Award 2022, Nominated
  • OLA Best Bets 2021, Commended
  • SYRCA Diamond Willow Award 2022, Short-listed
  • MYRCA Sundogs Award 2023, Nominated
  • Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award 2023, Short-listed
  • Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers’ Choice) 2023, Short-listed
  • Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People 2022, Short-listed
  • Jean Little First-Novel Award 2022, Winner
  • Washington Library Association Sasquatch Book Award 2025, Nominated
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    Dimensions:

    192 Pages
    8in * 5.375in *
    180gr0.25in

    Published:

    March 27, 2021

    City of Publication:

    Toronto

    Country of Publication:

    CA

    Publisher:

    Cormorant Books

    ISBN:

    9781770866157

    9781770866164 – EPUB

    Book Subjects:

    JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General

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    Language:

    eng

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