Warning: you may want to keep a tissue handy. Umbrella Summer Written by Lisa Graff Paperback 6.99 6. summer tearjerkers worrying Four months ago, ten-year-old Annie Richards brother Jared died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart ailment. Nothing the caring people around her do can help her to become less apprehensive, and her parents, while they love her, are caught up in their own sorrow.Īs Jared's twelfth birthday approaches, Annie's anxieties and fears cause a rift with her best friend and threaten to destroy the happiness that is every child's right-until a new neighbor, dealing with her own grief, and a special book enter her life.Īnnie is a smart, courageous girl who just might be as beloved to readers as the famous pig in the story that inspires her. Umbrella summer by Lisa Graff, 2011 edition, in English - First paperback edition. Now Annie is super-worried-about rare illnesses, minor wounds that might become infected, falling off her bike, and just about everything else. Four months ago, ten-year-old Annie Richards' brother Jared died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart ailment.

Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff