Sea Change

Poor Eliot. His parents are sending him off to Nova Scotia to stay with relatives for the summer when all he wants to do is piddle around his own town with his buddies. Is he ever surprised to find Nova Scotia is indeed an amazing place that, by summer's end, he doesn't want to leave?!

The charm of this book is the immediacy of seeing the world through the eyes of this smaller-than-average, snarky boy. You can't help but love him. And you will also adore Viva's graphic-artist touches throughout the story.