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Everwood #6

Worlds Apart

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Things are not going as Ephram had planned. When he arrives in Los Angeles with Amy and Bright, it seems clear that there is no way Amy is going to spend the next four years at UCLA. The traffic, the Sunset Strip, the perfectly tanned and impossibly beautiful people everywhere...this is not what Amy Abbott imagined college would be like. And secretly Ephram is glad -- after finding out he got in to Juilliard but Amy didn't get in to Princeton, he isn't sure he can handle being three thousand miles away from the girl he loves.

But after spending a couple of days on campus and sightseeing with her new friend Jenna, Amy makes up her mind: UCLA is the place for her. Ephram wants here to be happy, but the prospect of seeing Amy only over holidays and summer breaks makes him wonder if their relationship can survive a distance that great. Is going to New York and being at Juilliard worth not being with Amy.

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 26, 2005

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Melinda Metz

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Melinda Metz grew up in San Jose, California. People sometimes ask if she knows the way there. She kinda does, but she has an off-kilter sense of direction, so to be confident of arriving, it's better to consult some kind of navigational device.

Her mother tried to teach her to read in kindergarten, but Melinda had no interest. She also had no interest in learning to write her name. (FYI, when Melinda was in kindergarten it was all about finger-painting, play time, and naps.) Eventually, she mastered both and even majored in English at San Jose State University.

After college, Melinda moved to Manhattan to seek her fortune, which involved learning to identify fruits and vegetables while working at a grocery store,
making $2.73 working backstage for an off-off Broadway play (her part of the box-office profits), and editing books.

Melinda and the lovely and talented Laura J. Burns pretty much became unofficial writing partners when they were editors at the same company. They teamed up to brainstorm story ideas, and at some point their brains fused in some key places. Later they worked on the Roswell High book series, Laura developing and editing the series, Melinda writing.

That series led to Melinda and Laura, now an official writing team, writing two TV pilots, moving to L.A. to work on the Roswell TV show, and briefly living in Toronto while on the writing staff of 1-800-Missing. They both continue to write books, together and separately.

Laura and Melinda's new book, Sanctuary Bay, a YA thriller, is coming out in January 2016. It's set at an ultra-exclusive private school on an island. Once a student is accepted to the school, they must stay until graduation. No visits home, no contact with the outside world at all. Find out why in January!

The first four books in Melinda's new middle-grade mystery series,S.M.A.R.T.S., are out now. The books involve a group of kids in a makerspace club and they all have lots of science info. For all the cool geeks out there!

Melinda lives in Concord, NC with her dog, Scully (yes, she loves the woo-woo so much she named her dog after a kickass X-Files character). She has never regretted learning to read and write her name.

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