Molly stays in the hospital for an extended period while she undergoes a battery of tests. But the nosebleeds don't stop and Molly has to be taken to the hospital. Molly falls ill with the flu in the middle of winter and experiences quite a few nosebleeds. Maria is expecting their first child and Molly is thrilled at the prospect. They become good friends with Meg and Molly. In fact, she gets him interested in photography.Ī young couple, Ben and Maria, rent one of the other houses on the land. Meg and Will hit it off and become friends. As it turns out it is Will Banks, the kind and gentle 70-year-old widower who owns the land and the houses on it. Meg ventures out in the field one day and comes across an old man working on his truck in front of a small house. The only notable thing that happens to Meg is that a boy in her class starts calling her Nutmeg and it sticks.
Molly adjusts to the new school and within a month she's a cheerleader, has made a lot of new friends and has a cute boyfriend. She thinks Meg is especially talented in photography. Molly gets so upset with Meg's bad housekeeping that she draws a chalk line down the center of the room and dares Meg to cross over to her side.ĭespite their differences, the girls do love and care for each other. She wants to be a writer or an artist or a photographer. Molly wants to get married young and have six children. She envies her beautiful sister although she does like being smart and different. Meg is shy and studious and does well at school scholastically but not socially. Molly is beautiful and popular and no one can remember when she didn't have a boyfriend. There are other differences between the girls. The situation causes some conflicts immediately because Molly is always as neat as a pin and Meg is on the messy side. One of the biggest disappointments in the new house is that Meg and Molly will have to share a bedroom. He is a university professor and the school is giving him the year off to complete the important work. But there is a silver lining, they will only have to live on the farm for a year while Charles finishes the book he is writing. The girls are not happy that they will be leaving behind their school and their friends. Meg has lived in their house her entire life. The girls are shocked, especially Meg who is shyer and more reserved than her popular and beautiful older sister. A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry tells the story of thirteen-year-old Meg Chalmers whose whole life is turned upside down when her parents, Charles and Lydia Chalmers, tell her and her fifteen-year-old sister, Molly, that they will be closing up their family home in the small New England town where they live and moving to a country farmhouse.
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