Colby may be just a small holiday beach town for the tourists, but for Emeline it's home. It looks like it's going to be another typical summer there with her gorgeous high-school sweetheart, Luke - until . . .
Sarah Dessen is the author of seven stunning YA novels- Just
Listen, The Truth About Forever, Lock and Key, That Summer, Along
for the Ride and The Moon and More. She is a New York Times
bestseller and is sold in over 27 different countries around the
world. She lives in the countryside in North Carolina, USA, with
her daughter, husband, some lizards and two very spoilt dogs - read
her once and fall in love.
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Perfect
*Sunday Telegraph*
Unputdownable
*Mizz*
A compelling story and beautifully written
*Time Out*
A poignant coming-of-age story
*Big Issue*
Dessen is as skilled as ever at turning out steady, satisfying
stories about teens that are easy to fall for.
*Publishers Weekly*
Gr 9 Up-Dessen aims for the Moon with her latest novel and manages the landing quite wonderfully. Readers looking for a story as warm and real as The Truth About Forever (Viking, 2004) need look no further. Emaline works hard, both in school and at her family's realty office with three generations of women handling beach-vacation rentals in the small southern town of Colby. Her efforts get her accepted to Columbia, but when her birth father, back in her life after being absent for 10 years, suddenly and inexplicably withdraws his offer of substantial help, she has to settle for a less-prestigious school just two hours away. One advantage: her boyfriend, Luke, will also be there. Summer starts off normally: her dad, the one who married her teenaged mother and adopted Emaline years ago, is still fixing up their house; her older stepsister is bossing her around at work; and Em is passing out keys and towels and hanging around with her best friends, Daisy and Morris. Characters are crafted with care to be whole and realistic, so readers will be immersed when Emaline meets the New Yorkers who rent a mansion for the summer to make a documentary about local character Clyde, once quite a big deal on the art scene. Theo, the filmmaker's cute assistant, seems smitten with Emaline; and when Luke indulges in clubbing with a pretty tourist, the dream couple breaks up, enabling Emaline to spend some time with someone new. Complications romantic and familial help crystallize the strength in Emaline as her understanding transitions from youth to adulthood.-Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Sugar Hill, GA (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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