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Gr 8 Up—This will be a bittersweet summer for 17-year-old Taylor Edwards, whose family has retreated to their beloved cabin in the Poconos for a few final months of togetherness as Taylor's father slowly succumbs to stage-four cancer. Her older brother, Warren, a socially inept genius, and younger sister, Gelsey, a budding ballet star, feel at home in the friendly summer community, though they haven't been there for the last few years. The book occasionally inserts the pr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

At her family's lake house five summers ago, Taylor abandoned her best friend and her boyfriend without any explanatio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A warm, engaging, summer love story. When Taylor arrives at her family’s lake house, a palpably awkward run-in with Henry, the boy next door, sets up a reconciliation—and, eventually, a charming romance. The novel is also a poignant, eloquent account of Taylor’s affectionate relationship with her father and her grief and confusion over his illness. “Everything had changed,” she says. “Or, more accurately, everything was ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More