The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls
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3.6 • 8 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
One summer will challenge everything the Garrett sisters thought they knew about themselves—and each other in this captivating new novel by Jessica Spotswood.
As the oldest, Des shoulders a lot of responsibility for her family and their independent bookstore. Except it’s hard to dream big when she's so busy taking care of everyone else.
Vi has a crush on the girl next door. It makes her happy and nervous, but Cece has a boyfriend...so it's not like her feelings could ever be reciprocated, right?
Kat lands the lead in the community theater's summer play, but the drama spills offstage when her ex and his new girlfriend are cast too. Can she get revenge by staging a new romance of her own?
Bea and her boyfriend are heading off to college together in the fall, just like they planned when they started dating. But Bea isn’t sure she wants the same things as when she was thirteen…
Told through four alternating points of view, readers will laugh, cry, and fall in love alongside the Garrett girls.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Spotswood (the Cahill Witch Chronicles) provides four stories about conventional and unconventional relationships in one contemporary problem novel featuring four teenage sisters with distinct personalities and different sets of problems. Oldest sibling Des is tired of always being the responsible one and is ready for a radical change. Valedictorian Bea is having doubts about her plan to attend Georgetown the next year with her longtime boyfriend. Budding actress Kat is hatching a scheme to make her ex-boyfriend jealous by "fake dating" a bisexual friend. Youngest sister Vi has developed a crush on a girl she's known most of her life, but is hesitant to act on her feelings. During the course of the summer, while the girls spend their spare hours working at the family bookstore, they hide secrets, make some serious mistakes in judgment, and form decisions that will change the courses of their lives. If tolerance and forgiveness at times come too readily here, the book, which is told from the girls' alternating points of view, does present a variety of situations and outcomes, providing a little something for everyone. Forward thinkers will embrace the book's strong feminist message, while romantics will relish the all's-well-that-ends-well conclusion. Ages 14 up.
