Summer Snow

by Marilyn Levy

During a visit to Santa Monica after her parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old Leslie Bishop becomes involved with Scott Lacy, the younger brother of a glamorous movie star, and is drawn into an uncontrollable cocaine habit

Genres: Young Adult

176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 12, 1986

Reviews

[Ellen Keane · Rating 3 out of 5]

In 1986, LA kids keep on hopin' they'll have coke by the ocean.

[Joshua Arnett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a single person in this book would be fun to do drugs with; all of the drugs done in this book were wasted on these snoozes.

[Jesska · Rating 2 out of 5]

First coke, then credit card fraud, then getting caught skinny dipping. Yup, sounds like the right order.

[Stacey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book introduced me to another world when I read it as a teenager. Good book, somewhat of a cautionary tale, but also a look at how life's decisions come at you as a youth. It's stuck with me for 20 years.

[Pastel Paperback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Everything is going great for Leslie until her parents split up unexpectedly and her dad moves to California.

Coping with the changes to her family, Leslie is just passing the days watching TV until her mom and dad decide she should spend the summer between junior and senior year at her dad's new place on the west coast.

The following summer is dramatic—she immediately meets her father's much younger live-in girlfriend and falls in with a wild and wealthy teen crowd who drink and do drugs freely.

Cocaine was such an interesting part of 80s culture. Glamorized to death, which it mostly is in this book, until the very end when Leslie realizes her bf is selling to kids as young as 12, cutting the coke with laxatives, and using her as a accomplice to scam and get money for drugs.

[Traci Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book as a middle schooler, I’m now 43 y/o with 2 teens of my own and this book still haunts me.

[Jennifer Sherwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great exciting book!

[Tonja · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had to read this my freshman year of high school for English. (Some good anti drug rhetoric from Mrs Smith). If I had to read now I would prob hate it? 5 stars is prob aggressive right?