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Summer #7
Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal
The Choice of a Lifetime...
The summer of her dreams is almost over, and Summer Smith faces the most difficult decision of her life.
Will she go back to safe, sweet Seth Warner, the guy she's promised to marry, or will she take a chance on passionate Austin Reed? Will she follow Seth to the University of Wisconsin, or will she choose endless summer at Carlson College on Coconut Key? Summer may be over, but Summer Smith's life is just beginning.
One girl. Two guys. The choice of a lifetime.
The summer of her dreams is almost over, and Summer Smith faces the most difficult decision of her life.
Will she go back to safe, sweet Seth Warner, the guy she's promised to marry, or will she take a chance on passionate Austin Reed? Will she follow Seth to the University of Wisconsin, or will she choose endless summer at Carlson College on Coconut Key? Summer may be over, but Summer Smith's life is just beginning.
One girl. Two guys. The choice of a lifetime.
224 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1996
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About the author
Katherine Applegate
280 books6,279 followers#1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.
Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books); and ODDER: AN OTTER’S STORY, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel & Friends).
She’s written or co-written three early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends). With Gennifer Choldenko, she co-authored DOGTOWN and MOUSE AND HIS DOG, illustrated by Wallace West (Feiwel & Friends).
Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY series, illustrated by Patricia Castelao, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY, and THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends); ODDER (Feiwel & Friends); and the forthcoming POCKET BEAR (Feiwel & Friends).
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)
Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.
Katherine lives in Nevada with her husband and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Heirloom Literary and Mary Pender at WME.
Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books); and ODDER: AN OTTER’S STORY, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel & Friends).
She’s written or co-written three early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends). With Gennifer Choldenko, she co-authored DOGTOWN and MOUSE AND HIS DOG, illustrated by Wallace West (Feiwel & Friends).
Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY series, illustrated by Patricia Castelao, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY, and THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends); ODDER (Feiwel & Friends); and the forthcoming POCKET BEAR (Feiwel & Friends).
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)
Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.
Katherine lives in Nevada with her husband and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Heirloom Literary and Mary Pender at WME.
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June 30, 2024
Dare I say I actually liked this book? While a lot of the things about this series I disliked are still present throughout out this book the characters weren’t so unlikeable. The book open endedly closes the second summer in Florida. Summer realizes she needs to work on herself and ends thing with Seth and for the most part with Adam (there is hints of a future there) Diana and Seth end things both admitting that they did have feelings for each other. Marquez finally gets help for her eating disorder and Diver is back after the whole Caroline blackmailing him story is resolved. (Although I would have liked to see the whole confrontation scene played out. That Caroline deserved to have bad things happen to her that bitch lol) And lastly Diana confronts Jared and reveals she knows he’s Adam, but shows sympathy to his situation, although probably undeserved because of their past. While the book still has unresolved plots mostly dealing with Summer, one not knowing Jared is Adam, and two Austin still keeping his illness from her. So the final book will hopefully resolve all of those issues. Also for the whole seven books being about Summer and Seth’s will they stay together and get married for the line “and Seth walked out of her life forever” was probably the most shocking part. Do I like this series no not really but I will say I didn’t hate this book as much as the previous one.
June 5, 2021
Filler. We’re still dealing with fall out from the Spring Break book.
May 5, 2009
I read this when I was a teenager. One of my all-time favorite series.
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