Avalon Summer

<p><strong>June 1992.</strong> Ten-year-old Sarah Lewis can't wait for summer: twilight swims endless bike rides and days spent traipsing around the woods of her grandparents' home.</p><p><br></p><p>But when Sarah discovers two wrought-iron gates in the middle of the woods - gates attached to nothing and guarding nowhere - she is convinced that they lead to the fabled lands of Avalon a kingdom of her own imagination ruled by nine terrible queens.</p><p><br></p><p>Will Sarah find the courage to open the iron gates and find out if Avalon is real or will she give in to fear and the intimidation of a neighborhood bully who has a painful secret of his own?</p><p><br></p><p>Before summer's end Sarah must come to terms with the uncertainty of growing up and find a way to say goodbye to the people and places she's come to love.</p>