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Clearwater Crossing #20
Don't Look Back
The members of Eight Prime have been through a year full of ups and downs, but now summer is ending, and so is their time together. . . .
Leah and Miguel are getting ready to start college apart, and Peter’s already feeling the pressure of senior year. Jenna can’t believe she’s going to be the oldest sister in the Conrad house now that Caitlin’s marrying David. Meanwhile, Ben’s still in starry-eyed shock over the fact that he has a girlfriend, Melanie and Jesse will be starting the new school year as a couple, and Nicole is starting to wonder if couplehood is all it’s cracked up to be! None of them can be sure what the coming year will bring. But they still have these last few days of summer. . . .
Leah and Miguel are getting ready to start college apart, and Peter’s already feeling the pressure of senior year. Jenna can’t believe she’s going to be the oldest sister in the Conrad house now that Caitlin’s marrying David. Meanwhile, Ben’s still in starry-eyed shock over the fact that he has a girlfriend, Melanie and Jesse will be starting the new school year as a couple, and Nicole is starting to wonder if couplehood is all it’s cracked up to be! None of them can be sure what the coming year will bring. But they still have these last few days of summer. . . .
- GenresYoung AdultTeen
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 13, 2001
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Laura Peyton Roberts
36 books52 followersLaura Peyton Roberts is the author of numerous books for teens and tweens, including the Clearwater Crossing series, Ghost of a Chance, The Queen of Second Place, Queen B, Green, and Walk on Water. Visit her at www.LauraPeytonRoberts.com
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March 4, 2015
My rating is for the entire twenty book series really. As is this review.
I read the first book back when I actually was in high school, and while I liked it, I've only now realised how great the entire series is. You'd expect, given the covers, a bit of a Sweet Valley 2.0. Instead, you get such perceptive, honest and real books that it's quite upsetting to see that they aren't more popular.
These books and their characters actually grow, right before your eyes. They are flawed in incredibly realistic, relatable ways when the series starts... Nice kids, but at times infuriatingly selfish, petty, shallow, confused, arrogant. Between them, they also have very real problems they are dealing with. poverty, neglect, body image issues, bullying, substance abuse, death, terminal illness, religious confusions and spiritual crises. While a few books would not have been able to deal with the magnitude of these problems, Peyton spreads them out over twenty volumes and that helps immensely. She doesn't rush things, doesn't hurry in order to reach neat conclusions, and she's so completely clued in to how teenagers react and address their issues.
What I especially loved was the respect she pays to their maturity. She doesn't patronise at all, and each character is allowed to gradually understand what needs fixing.
She's created lovely people in this book, very real people with real problems. No one is too beautiful, no one too perfect. The love stories don't take an annoyingly nauseating centre stage. And the way these kids grow and choose their own paths is so wonderfully done.
I really loved these books. I picked them up hoping for mindless romantic sap. I got a much better deal than that.
I read the first book back when I actually was in high school, and while I liked it, I've only now realised how great the entire series is. You'd expect, given the covers, a bit of a Sweet Valley 2.0. Instead, you get such perceptive, honest and real books that it's quite upsetting to see that they aren't more popular.
These books and their characters actually grow, right before your eyes. They are flawed in incredibly realistic, relatable ways when the series starts... Nice kids, but at times infuriatingly selfish, petty, shallow, confused, arrogant. Between them, they also have very real problems they are dealing with. poverty, neglect, body image issues, bullying, substance abuse, death, terminal illness, religious confusions and spiritual crises. While a few books would not have been able to deal with the magnitude of these problems, Peyton spreads them out over twenty volumes and that helps immensely. She doesn't rush things, doesn't hurry in order to reach neat conclusions, and she's so completely clued in to how teenagers react and address their issues.
What I especially loved was the respect she pays to their maturity. She doesn't patronise at all, and each character is allowed to gradually understand what needs fixing.
She's created lovely people in this book, very real people with real problems. No one is too beautiful, no one too perfect. The love stories don't take an annoyingly nauseating centre stage. And the way these kids grow and choose their own paths is so wonderfully done.
I really loved these books. I picked them up hoping for mindless romantic sap. I got a much better deal than that.
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January 5, 2013
This is the last in the Clearwater series - a good clean series for teens. It is a time for much change for several of Eight Prime members. Nicole is in for a surprise when she's forced into trying on her cheerleading uniform for the upcoming season. Leah's isn't looking forward to an upcoming change in her own life. Things are changing for Melanie as well, starting on her sixteenth birthday which opens Don't Look Back.
February 17, 2009
These were great, easy reads that drew you in and kept you involved the whole 20 book series. Some are out of print so it's hard to come by now... but I read them all (In order, it's pretty necessary in my opinion as if you miss one, you'd be lost for the next one).. and I loved them all. :)
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