The goodbye summer

Sarah Van Name

eAudio - 2019

Caroline is counting the days until September when she'll turn seventeen and she and her older boyfriend, Jake, will run away together. She doesn't feel connected to anyone at home now that she has him, and she can't wait to see the world with the most important person in her life. So with just a few more months until freedom, she spends her summer working at the local aquarium gift shop and dreaming of the fall. Then she meets Georgia, a counselor at the aquarium's camp, and Caroline's world changes. Through pizza lunches, trips to amusement parks, and midnight talks, Georgia begins to show Caroline that there's more to life than being with Jake. The stronger Georgia and Caroline's bond grows, the more un...easy Caroline becomes about her plans to leave. When summer comes to a close, she'll have to say goodbye to someone...but who is she willing to lose?

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Published
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC 2019.
Language
English
Corporate Author
hoopla digital
Main Author
Sarah Van Name (author)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Rebecca Mitchell (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
Online Access
Instantly available on hoopla.
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 19 min.)) : digital
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781974951895
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Instead of starting her senior year, 16-year-old Caroline is planning to run away with her older boyfriend, Jake, at the end of the summer.To help finance their move, Caroline gets a job in the gift shop of the local aquarium, where she meets Georgia, one of the summer camp counselors. Georgia and Caroline are heading in opposite directionsCaroline may be leaving high school before graduation, and Georgia (reluctantly) takes weekly practice SAT tests and has annotated her college guidebookbut they quickly become friends. As their friendship grows and as Caroline's plans with Jake start to solidify, Caroline begins to question what she actually wantsto stay or to go. Van Name's debut is a fun read written in a comfortable, conversational style, but it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of depth. Set against a default-white suburban neighborhood, the only two options presented for Caroline are leaving with Jake or following her parents' plans of completing school and going to college, and those choices are treated without nuance. Caroline's relationship with Jake is mostly well-presented, but his intentions are unclear, as are her actual feelings about how they spend their time together (she seems to have sex with him more out of expectation than desire). Her relationship with Georgia, by contrast, is sweet and well-developed.A well-intentioned but mediocre book about listening to your instincts. (Fiction. 14-18) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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