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Shelter Island: A January Hoolihan and Crisscross Adventure
Paperback
Series: What I Did Over My Summer Break
Publisher: Fantasy Creature Books
Published: May 4 2026
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
After her punk rock father's overdose and her 7th grade graduation, newly orphaned January Hoolihan is to be dumped on a scary old man who knows nothing of her existence when she's hijacked from her East Village tenement to the Island where he lives. But gal pal Crisscross, a little kid from the nabe obsessed with hounds and pirates, shadows January. And in her wake? A heap of trouble!
January scribbles about the dog days that follow in her 8th grade What I Did Over My Summer Break assignment at her new Island school.
Encompassing the ongoing, turbulent, Tompkins Square protests of the early 1990s, Shelter Island touches on mature themes including child exploitation and neglect, AIDS, and parental drug abuse's impact on kids. But it's also about new friendships forged on land and sea, an eccentric maritime family, and the power of unconditional love.
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