What a fun summer read! I wish I had this 6 months ago. It would've been perfect to read in the hot weather, holding a glass of icy lemonade (a fabulous picture, am I right?) Books like these are quite common, however, and there wasn't anything too special. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it and it passe...
The weather is so beastly and unrelenting, it’s like a cruel joke. The ice cream is always runny, no matter how long it hibernates in the deep freeze. Our back field turns brown and crackly, littered with grasshopper husks and lost blueberries, as dry and hard as pebbles. ...
I open one eye, then the other. I squint at my best friend, Cynthia Crowley, who stands in front of the full-length mirror hanging on the back of her bedroom door. She fluffs the grayish-bluish-lavenderish skirt of her formal dress. She isn’t all wrong. If you’ve ever bee...
They can be big and philosophical, like “What’s the meaning of life?” Or small and personal, like “How do you know if you’re really in love?” They can even be evil (Yes, I’m talking about you, Mrs. Perkins), like “For the quadratic equation where the equation has only one solution, what’s the val...