Saving June
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- ¥950
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- ¥950
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'If she'd waited less than two weeks, she'd be June who died in June. But I guess my sister didn't consider that.'
Harper Scott's older sister has always been the perfect one so when June takes her own life a week before her high school graduation, sixteen–year–old Harper is devastated. Everyone's sorry, but no one can explain why.
When her divorcing parents decide to split her sister's ashes into his–and–her urns, Harper takes matters into her own hands. She'll steal the ashes and drive cross–country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going California.
Enter Jake Tolan. He's a boy with a bad attitude, a classic–rock obsession and nothing in common with Harper's sister. But Jake had a connection with June, and when he insists on joining them, Harper's just desperate enough to let him. With his alternately charming and infuriating demeanour and his belief that music can see you through anything, he might be exactly what she needs.
Except June wasn't the only one hiding something. Jake's keeping a secret that has the power to turn Harper's life upside down again.
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After 16-year-old Harper's outwardly perfect older sister, June, commits suicide just before graduating from high school, Harper decides to steal her sister's ashes and scatter them in California, where June had dreamed of going. Harper's best friend Laney is up for the road trip, but they have no way to get there from small-town Michigan. Enter Jake, a surly boy Harper met at June's funeral, who insists on driving them cross-country. Each adventure along the way a protest in Chicago, a mosh pit fight at a concert in Flagstaff brings equally prickly Harper and Jake closer together. But when Jake finally reveals why he agreed to take Harper to California, things blow up. Harper's sharp-edged voice, as she struggles to come to terms with her grief, is a strong point, though her self-absorption can be wearying. Music plays a prominent role in Harrington's debut novel: the characters constantly debate the merits of classic rock and punk bands (multiple playlists are included), which will delight music lovers, but sometimes upstages Harper's emotional journey. Ages 14 up.
