The Starlite Drive In

Download or read book Starlite Drive-In written by Marjorie Reynolds and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for The Starlite Drive-In, Marjorie Reynoldsrs"s "stunning debut"* and one of the ALArs"s Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults:"A story of confinement and entrapment, and of events that can free the spirit at long last." - Publishers Weekly"A believable tale about real people, likely to engage the memory chords of any reader." - Orange County Register"Start with a drive-in movie theater in the 1950s. Add a starstruck and lonely 12-year old girl, and a handsome drifter, and you have all the makings for a coming-of-age romance. But Marjorie Reynolds...added a twist. And there lies this first novel's strength. Callie Anne Dicksen gets a call that bones have been found at the Starlite Drive-In, which is being razed for a new housing development. Callie knows immediately who they belong to, and begins to remember that summer of 1956, when she was just 12 and her whole life changedhellip;Told from Callie's perspective, [The Starlite Drive-In] captures that childlike innocence and wisdom perfectly." - Richmond Times-Dispatch"Callie Anne is akin to the impressionable heroine of To Kill a Mockingbird...The Starlite Drive-In is wise in the ways in which families adjust their views of reality to survive." - Boston Sunday Herald"Fusing Callie Anne's coming of age with a tragic love story, Marjorie Reynolds tidily explores the gap between fantasy and reality in her surely told first novel." - New York Times Book Review"Reynolds creates a genuine and engaging young narrator in Callie Anne and maintains heat and suspense on every page." - Detroit Free Press"A sweetly unpretentious tale of a defining summer that taught a young girl too much about love and life...accomplished." - Kirkus Reviews"Perfect vacation entertainment." - Seattle Times"With a storyteller's skill, she deftly juggles the momentum of her plot and a richly diverse cast of characters...delightful episodes of comic relief...Reynolds firmly controls her story to the final compelling end and never succumbs to the temptation to dip into maudlin sentimentality." - *Rocky Mountain News