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Principles of Love #6
Labor of Love
When she returns to Martha's Vineyard from Los Angeles, Love Bukowski is looking forward to spending the remainder of the summer before her senior year at Hadley Hall reconnecting with her boyfriend Charlie and, with some trepidation, to meeting the mother who left her when she was just a baby.When she returns to Martha's Vineyard from Los Angeles, Love Bukowski is looking forward to spending the remainder of the summer before her senior year at Hadley Hall reconnecting with her boyfriend Charlie and, with some trepidation, to meeting the mother who left her when she was just a baby.
256 pages, Paperback
First published September 4, 2007
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Emily Franklin
35 books149 followersGrowing up, Emily Franklin wanted to be “a singing, tap-dancing doctor who writes books.”
Having learned early on that she has little to no dancing ability, she left the tap world behind, studied at Oxford University, and received an undergraduate degree concentrating in writing and neuroscience from Sarah Lawrence College. Though she gave serious thought to a career in medicine, eventually that career followed her dancing dreams.
After extensive travel, some “character-building” relationships, and a stint as a chef, Emily went back to school at Dartmouth where she skied (or fished, depending on the season) daily, wrote a few screenplays, and earned her Master’s Degree in writing and media studies.
While editing medical texts and dreaming about writing a novel, Emily went to Martha’s Vineyard on a whim and met her future husband who is, of course, a doctor. And a pianist. He plays. They sing. They get married. He finishes medical school, they have a child, she writes a novel. Emily’s dreams are realized. She writes books.
Emily Franklin is the author of two adult novels, The Girls' Almanac and Liner Notes and more than a dozen books for young adults including the critically-acclaimed seven book fiction series for teens, The Principles of Love. Other young adult books include The Other Half of Me the Chalet Girls series, and At Face Value, a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac (coming in September 2008).
She edited the anthologies It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties and How to Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights. She is co-editor of Before: Short Stories about Pregnancy from Our Top Writers.
Her book of essays and recipes, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, 102 New Recipes ~ A Memoir of Tasting, Testing, and Discovery in the Kitchen will be published by Hyperion.
Emily’s work has appeared in The Boston Globe and the Mississippi Review as well as in many anthologies including Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers, and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond. Emily writes regularly about food and parenting for national magazines and newspapers. She travels, teaches writing seminars, and speaks on panels, but does not tap dance. Emily Franklin lives outside of Boston with her husband and their four young children.
Having learned early on that she has little to no dancing ability, she left the tap world behind, studied at Oxford University, and received an undergraduate degree concentrating in writing and neuroscience from Sarah Lawrence College. Though she gave serious thought to a career in medicine, eventually that career followed her dancing dreams.
After extensive travel, some “character-building” relationships, and a stint as a chef, Emily went back to school at Dartmouth where she skied (or fished, depending on the season) daily, wrote a few screenplays, and earned her Master’s Degree in writing and media studies.
While editing medical texts and dreaming about writing a novel, Emily went to Martha’s Vineyard on a whim and met her future husband who is, of course, a doctor. And a pianist. He plays. They sing. They get married. He finishes medical school, they have a child, she writes a novel. Emily’s dreams are realized. She writes books.
Emily Franklin is the author of two adult novels, The Girls' Almanac and Liner Notes and more than a dozen books for young adults including the critically-acclaimed seven book fiction series for teens, The Principles of Love. Other young adult books include The Other Half of Me the Chalet Girls series, and At Face Value, a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac (coming in September 2008).
She edited the anthologies It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties and How to Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights. She is co-editor of Before: Short Stories about Pregnancy from Our Top Writers.
Her book of essays and recipes, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, 102 New Recipes ~ A Memoir of Tasting, Testing, and Discovery in the Kitchen will be published by Hyperion.
Emily’s work has appeared in The Boston Globe and the Mississippi Review as well as in many anthologies including Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers, and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers on the Mother-Daughter Bond. Emily writes regularly about food and parenting for national magazines and newspapers. She travels, teaches writing seminars, and speaks on panels, but does not tap dance. Emily Franklin lives outside of Boston with her husband and their four young children.
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November 10, 2012
Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
Love continues on her journey of finding out more about herself and her family.
When she gets back on Martha's Vineyard, she discovers that her mother has left, leaving her a letter and a promise to return at the end of the summer.
Meanwhile, summer's just getting started. Soon she's seeing a whole new side of Charlie, chatting with Jacob again, and wishing she knew where life was taking her. But, slowly, she's beginning to figure things out.
LABOR OF LOVE is the fifth book in Emily Franklin's series about a girl searching for answers about life, love, and herself. Reading about Love's adventures is like settling down to a long letter from your best friend.
Love continues on her journey of finding out more about herself and her family.
When she gets back on Martha's Vineyard, she discovers that her mother has left, leaving her a letter and a promise to return at the end of the summer.
Meanwhile, summer's just getting started. Soon she's seeing a whole new side of Charlie, chatting with Jacob again, and wishing she knew where life was taking her. But, slowly, she's beginning to figure things out.
LABOR OF LOVE is the fifth book in Emily Franklin's series about a girl searching for answers about life, love, and herself. Reading about Love's adventures is like settling down to a long letter from your best friend.
January 26, 2011
My opinion of this book is that it was like the first one very good but not like the 2nd one very boring. This was very good because it has all different themes going on in the book that relate to different people in the world. The main character has to go through a lot because she is finding her mother for the first time but instead she finds a new surprise. The main character in this book is very good because the author made her very expressive and important to the story, I would recommend this book to people who liked the 1st 2 books in the series and romance/tragedy.
December 11, 2009
This book started off good, but halfway through it started to lose me. It was a little slow and I wish more happened with the story line.
May 9, 2009
Cheesy really. But it was good.
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