I received this book at no cost from the publisher
Synopsis:
Beachfront love blossoms in this refreshing summer romance, in the tradition of Sixteenth Summer and Seventeenth Summer.
Mandy Sullivan isn’t exactly looking forward to the summer months as tourists invade her seaside hometown on the coast of Maine. Her best friend, Cynthia, has abandoned her for camp and her older brother just announced he’ll be staying at college taking classes for the summer, leaving Mandy with nothing to do and no one to hang out with. Hoping to keep herself busy, Mandy takes a volunteer job at the Rocky Pointe Lighthouse. On her very first day, Oliver Farmingham asks for a private tour. A new—and incredibly cute—face in Rocky Pointe, Oliver seems more interested in Mandy than the lighthouse and its history.
Without her best friend at her side, Mandy is scrambling to act the right way and say the right things when Oliver is around. Cynthia—not Mandy—has always been the confident, flirtatious girl that everyone wanted to be around. As Mandy and Oliver spend more time together exploring the coast, biking through the woods, and attending the local summer festivals, their budding friendship becomes much more. But with Mandy’s insecurities creeping to the surface, can she open her heart to someone who will only be in town for three months?
Mandy doesn’t pay much attention to what’s going around in her small town in Maine, but when her best friend leaves for the summer, she feels a bit lost and plans on just helping her mom out at the Candy Cane. When she has a cute meet with Oliver, a boy who is visiting, a summer romance is born. Oliver is a nice boy that has a talent for art, so he brings his sketch book to capture the local lighthouse. Through Oliver, Mandy realize her small town has a lot to offer.
This is a sweet first romance that takes you though first kisses, unsettled feelings and how enormous emotions are at that age. I really liked Oliver just for the fact that he wanted Mandy to be sure of herself. I always look for books like this to recommend since it puts first romance in such a perfect light of how it is supposed to be. SIGH. Parents: this is safe for tweens and will make everyone happy to read and swoon over.
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Michelle Dalton is one of the many names Carla Jablonski uses when writing. Her two YAs written as Carla Jablonski (published by Razorbill/Penguin), Thicker than Water and Silent Echoes, were included on the NYPL Books for the Teen Age list, and her graphic novel trilogy Resistance (illustrated by Leland Purvis, published by :01 Books) has won several awards, including the Sydney Taylor Silver Medal. In addition to writing novels she is an actor, playwright, and former trapeze artist. A native New Yorker, she is eternally grateful to her friends who invite her to their beach houses.
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This sounds like a cute book and something my niece would enjoy reading – thanks for the review
Sounds like a nice sweet first romance.
I want to read the eighth book to the Charley Davidson series by Darynda Jones.