![]() ![]() Not to mention that Avery's biological mother comes back into the picture at one point. While the girls grow closer and closer, things fall apart for their dads so the girls need to hatch a plan to bring them back together. They are both sent to CIGI camp for the summer as a bonding experience while their dads explore China (of all places!) on motorcycles. ![]() So then they are supposed to become friends/sisters. Gay single dads who meet at a conference in Chicago and fall in love. Avery is bookish and has a lot of anxieties whereas Bett is outgoing and almost too lively. We meet Avery and Bett(y), two girls from opposite sides of the US (NYC and LA) who are very different characters, too. Alas, at least I can read about them now and imagine being there. Summer camps, the way they are known and quite popular in the US, have always been something I wished I had had in my life as a kid/teen. I got this book last year but didn't manage to read it in summer then. I can see some similarities, but mostly because of the Summer Camp aspect (which I loved). I saw many reviews comparing this one to a modern day Parent Trap. I'm quickly learning that I much prefer Middle Grade stories to Young Adult. There are fun adventures and twists along the way. Of course the girls develop a friendship that turns closer to sisterhood. She's easy going, fun-loving, and outgoing. It was great on Audio with a full cast of amazing narrators.Īvery is scared of everything, cautious, and a little intense. I really enjoyed how this book is told in emails, along with a few voicemails and some old school letters. The girls are adamant about not becoming friends. They want the girls to go to a summer camp together and get to know each other. Middle Grade # 3 down in the books! This book was a delight! Avery Bloom and Bett Devlin don't know each other, but they are about too! They are being raised by single dads, and their dads happen to fall in love. Now that they can't imagine life without each other, will the two girls (who sometimes call themselves Night Owl and Dogfish) figure out a way to be a family? But things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends-and possibly, one day, even sisters. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads.When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City.
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