Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Summer Reads

Ready to relax and enjoy your summer vacation? Pick up these summer-themed books at CDPL!

Jenny Han's Summer Trilogy:

The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009)

Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

It's Not Summer Without You (2010)

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.     

We'll Always Have Summer (2011)
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.   



Harlem Summer (2007)

In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.     







My Almost Epic Summer (2006)

Stuck babysitting during the summer while her friends take glamorous vacations, fourteen-year-old Irene learns some lessons about life after meeting a beautiful, yet troubled, girl.      







Forever Summer (2011)

What happens when an East Coast girl is thrust into the Laguna Beach surfing scene, where she unintentionally butts heads with the school's queen bee?      

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