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Byars, Betsy THE SUMMER OF THE SWANS Santa Barbara : ABC-Clio, 1988. IL 5-8 RL 5.0 . ISBN 0140314202 Sarah is having an up and down summer -- typical is her trying to change her orange sneakers to baby blues and they come out puce! A perfect name for the new color. Charlie, a mentally retarded 10-year-old, gets lost looking for the swans and Sarah finds she has an unexpected ally in her search for him in the local woods. SUBJECTS:    Mentally handicapped -- Fiction ©  Permission is granted for the noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.