"The summer we were twelve" Skylar's love letters from her boyfriend back home were exciting to all of us-except Skylar. "The summer we were eleven" Johanna totally freaked out during her first game of Spin the Bottle.
"The summer we were ten: " Maddie realized she was too far into her lies to think about telling the truth. "The summer we were nine" Emma was branded "Skylar's friend Emma" by the infamous Adam Loring. But the weekend isn't quite as sunwashed as they'd imagined as the memories come flooding back. Have all come back to camp for a weekend of tipsy canoe trips to the island, midnight skinny dipping in the lake, and an epic game of capture the flag-boys versus girls. But Michelle has heard that her whole life, and it's never stopped her before.Una LaMarche triumphs once again with this rare and compassionate look at how racial and social privilege affects one family in crisis in both subtle and astonishing ways.Show moreīittersweet, funny, and achingly honest, "Five Summers "is a story of friendship, love, and growing up that is perfect for fans of Ann Brashare's "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants " and Judy Blume's "Summer Sisters"." " "Four best friends, five summers of camp memories" Emma, Skylar, Jo and Maddie Five people in a failing, old station wagon, living off free samples at food courts across America, and the most pressing question on Michelle's mind is: Who will break down first - herself or the car? All the signs tell her they won't make it. Leah hopes for closure Michelle just wants to give him a piece of her mind. After news trickles back to them that Buck is dying, they make the uneasy decision to drive across country to his hospice in California. Michelle and Leah only have one thing in common: Buck Devereaux, the biological father who abandoned them when they were little. Uburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time. Leah and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from s Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mum in jail and only Michelle's part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them.
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