Conrad strode over to me, lifted the sweaty magazine from my face, and grinned. They walked up the steps, cracking up over how Steven had lost his shorts after a particularly ferocious wave. Conrad and Jeremiah came back to the house first.
Something romantic.Ĭonrad and Jeremiah and Steven had been surfing all morning. She’d probably come out soon with a glass of sun tea and a book I should read. My mother was playing solitaire on the front porch, Susannah was inside puttering around the kitchen. I was lying by the pool with a magazine on my face. Fans of the first book will enjoy this continuation in which nothing is easy for Belly, but the end result is worth the heartache."Jennifer Miskec, Longwood University, Farmville, VA" Copyright 2010 Media Source Inc.It was a hot summer day in Cousins. The nostalgic imagery of a lifetime of experiences at a serene and magical place like Cousins Beach is alive once again, and the desperation the characters feel when faced with losing a loved one and possibly the beach house, too, is warmly imagined. This sequel is as quiet and thoughtful as its companion.
Complicated and fragile, Belly's relationships with the two young men are put to new tests as she and Conrad come to terms with their relationship, and Belly and Jeremiah begin to build a romantic bond of their own. The trio find themselves at Cousins Beach after all, and the memories and feelings of the past come flooding back. When he suddenly leaves school without explanation, his brother, Jeremiah, recruits Belly to help find and mend him. But mourning Suzanne is even harder since Conrad has shut down, refusing to talk to Belly or anyone else. In this follow-up to "The Summer I Turned Pretty" (S & S, 2009), Belly is still reeling from the dissolution of her relationship with Conrad, her lifelong love, and the death of his mother. But when a family friend dies and the beach house tradition is threatened, she faces the season without her second family and without the boy she loves. Gr 7-10 Belly, 16, lives all year for her summers at Cousins Beach.
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