She couldn't help thinking about Polly and Jo as she walked, so when she saw them up ahead, waiting at the light to cross East-West Highway, it almost felt like they appeared out of her memory.Īma was surprised to see Polly and Jo together. Today she felt like treading the familiar steps she'd walked so many times when she was younger, when she was never in a hurry. But it was an aimless time of day, and she wasn't hauling her usual twenty pounds of textbooks, binders, and notebooks. She was purposeful and forward-looking, like her older sister. Usually she took the bus home, but today she felt like walking, she wasn't sure why. The next time Ama went to school, it would be high school.
Tomorrow the entire eighth grade would pile back into the gym for the graduation ceremony, but that was just for an hour and their families would be there. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Instead her summer scholarship lands her on a wilderness trip full of flirting teenagers, blisters, impossible hiking trails, and a sad lack of hair products. She wanted to be at an academic camp, doing research in an air-conditioned library, earning A's. And she didn't count on her family at all.Īma is not an outdoorsy girl. Or feeling embarrassed by her middle school friends.
She didn't count on a brief fling with a cute boy changing her entire summer.
Jo is spending the summer at her family's beach house, working as a busgirl and bonding with the older, cooler girls she'll see at high school come September. At least that way she won't have to watch her friends moving so far ahead. She's setting her sights on a more glamorous life, but it's going to take all of her focus. Polly has an idea that she can't stop thinking about, one that involves changing a few things about herself.
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