The Summer of Permanent Wants
By Jamieson Findlay (Doubleday Canada, $15)
Ages 13-16
No longer able to speak after a long illness, Emmaline finds communicating a challenge. But a summer of self-discovery awaits when she visits her bohemian grandmother one summer and starts a floating bookshop aboard Permanent Wants, sailing from port to port and travelling to places real and imaginary.


































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