Sarah Godfrey is 14 years old and she is going through the most difficult time - the period of growing up. Just yesterday she was a cheerful, contented child, but today she realized that the whole world is terrible. Life really isn’t nice if your mom has died, your dad lives far away and rarely comes, and your younger brother Charlie, after a serious illness, is developmentally delayed and cannot speak. One day Charlie went looking for the swans who had captured him and got lost in the forest. The search for him turned Sarah around, and she saw the world and those around her again with a loving and joyful gaze. For the book “Swan Summer”, the author was awarded the most honorable literary prize in the United States in 1971 - the Newbery Medal.