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The Summer I Turned Pretty

  • 272 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2000
  • 26 editions

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1 About this book

This book is fresh fun and exciting. 15 year Belly Conklin is enjoying another summer with the people that she loves in Cousins, a place she's been going to since she was a baby! The fishers, Aka Jerimiah and Conrad, are finally grown up, and Belly feels like she can fit in aswell. Belly would be turning 16 this year, as now she feels as if she can fit in with the boys.

She thinks the summer will be fun, Hanging out on the beach and Playing with the people she loves, Belly is looking foward to her summer vacation. But that's when she finds out that Susannah Fisher is diagnosed with Cancer, which changes everything. Things are different in the Summer house. Her first love, Conrad is different, he's distant.

While the stay in the house was supposed to be enjoying, they need to focus on things that matter the most. Sussanah. Belly decides that it's time she acts like the adult that she is. Choosing between her 2 lovers Jerimiah and Conrad Fisher. Will either of them like her?

  • Coming of age
  • Friendship
  • Bildungsromans
  • Relationships
  • Summer
  • Vacation homes
  • Teenage girls
  • Realistic fiction

2 What to expect

A summer romance for teens: Belly, at the beach house she visits every year, caught between two brothers. Light and nostalgic, moving between this summer and the ones before.

Good for readers who want: a love story, summer, and a coming-of-age story.

3 About Jenny Han

Born 1980

Jenny Han (born September 3, 1980) is an American author, screenwriter, executive producer, and showrunner. She is best known for writing The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which she adapted into a TV series for Prime Video. She also wrote the To All the Boys trilogy, which was adapted into a Netflix film series.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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