Eleven-year-old Edie Jasmine Snow has one "perfect" thirteen-year-old sister, two loving parents, a cat named Dusty, a grandmother she suspects is a witch, and a grandfather who insists on calling her Albert.
Framed by family summer vacations at the lake, All-Season Edie follows Edie through a tumultuous year in which her beloved grandfather becomes ill. In the face of family tragedy, Edie tries to practice witchcraft, learns to dance the flamenco, meets the Greek god Zeus doing his Christmas shopping at the mall, ruins the most important party of her sister's life and realizes that her family is both completely strange and absolutely normal.
"An engrossing pre-teen novel."
"An effortless read, an honest and beautiful book."
"Subtle, sad, and hilarious, it has a wonderful way with words and features characters that stick."
"This debut children's book by an author best known for adult short stories gets the preteen voice perfectly."
"A fun book to read...Would fit well into any school or classroom library."
"Recommended."
"Astonishingly fresh...has the classic flavor of Ramona and Beezus, as if they had hit middle school and met the new millennium."
"It is fun to read Edie's witty language."