Thursday, June 21, 2012

Top 5 Beach Reads

Here are 5 great YA beach reads. Reading them will give you a better tan.

5. Twenty Boy Summer - Sarah Ockler
Anna was best friends with Frankie and her brother, Matt, until all three are in a car accident in which Matt is killed. A year later, Anna and Frankie, struggling to get past Matt’s death, head to California with Frankie’s parents for a beach vacation, determined to have “the Absolute Best Summer Ever (A.B.S.E).”

4. The Boys Next Door - Jennifer Echols
Lori lives for summertime on the lake. She spends all season wakeboarding, swimming, and hanging with her friends -- including the two hotties in the house next door. Lori and the "baby" brother, Adam, are inseparable friends, she can't deny a secret crush on Sean. This year Sean's been paying Lori a lot of attention, and not in a brotherly way.

3. Epic Fail - Claire LaZebnik
Pride and Prejudice lovers will especially enjoy the many parallels that are in this modern tale.  If you've never read Pride and Prejudice you will still love it.

2. The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han
This is the first book in the series and the whole series is wonderfully heartbreaking and romantic. Year after year, Belly’s spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah. The boys never noticed Belly noticing them. And every summer she hoped it would be different. This time, it was.

1. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
I know these books have been out a while, but if you haven't read it, now is the time!
Over a few bags of cheese puffs four friends decide to form a sisterhood, and take the vow of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye for the summer. And now the journey of the pants–and the most memorable summer of their lives–begins. 

Enjoy - and don't forget your SPF 30!

Erin

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