![]() Here is a link to Priscilla Cumming’s website if you’d like to learn more about her or her books! A Bike Like Sergio’s, I Am Enough, and Carmela Full of Wishes Her picture books include characters like Chadwick the crab, Oswald the heron, and Sid and Sal the ospreys. Priscilla Cummings grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts and later in life moved to Maryland, which inspired many settings and characters for her books. Mattero Did, Saving Grace, A Face First, and Autumn’s Journey. The next novels are The Journey Back, which follows one Brady’s friends after his fate has been decided in Red Kayak, and Cheating for the Chicken Man, which follows the other.Ĭummings also has written other middle grade novels including Blindsided, What Mr. This is the first novel in a 3-set series by Priscilla Cummings. This gripping novel, follows Brady as he struggles with choosing between what is easy and what is right, with his two best friends’ fate in his hands. In fact, he discovers that his friends are responsible for the tragedy in a prank gone wrong, and even worse, it may have unknowingly been his idea. As he is finally beginning to accept what has happened, Brady discovers that the accident was not an accident after all. Brady goes through the motions of his 8th grade life trying to come to grips with this horrific death and trying to convince himself that it wasn’t his fault. His neighbor and her 3-year old overturn in their kayak in the Corsica river, and despite Brady’s heroic efforts, the little boy dies. The story opens with a horrible tragedy during Brady’s 8th grade year. This week I spent some time diving into Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, the first book in the series.
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