Junonia

Junonia by Kevin Henkes, 176p.

This was a great quick read for a juvenile fiction book. Alice and her parents make an annual visit to Sanibel, Island, Florida and stay in a cottage named Scallop where she has always celebrated her birthday. This year she is celebrating her 10th birthday, and one of her friends who visits the island the same time Alice does each year and stays in one of the island cottages is not going to make it. Instead some new visitors come and stay in her friend's cottage. This really upsets Alice because she wants things to be the same as they always are every year. Alice struggles with accepting "change", but soon learns that things change and at the same time makes a new friend. This is a really cute vacation read.