The Summer of Impossibilities

Rachael Allen

ISBN 10: 1419741128 / ISBN 13: 9781419741128

Published by Abrams, 2020

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Four girls. One summer. And a pact to do the impossible. Skyler, Ellie, Scarlett, and Amelia Grace are forced to spend the summer at the lake house where their moms became best friends.One can't wait.One would rather gnaw off her own arm than hang out with a bunch of strangers just so their moms can drink too much wine and sing Journey at two o'clock in the morning.Two are sisters.Three are currently feuding with their mothers.One is hiding how bad her joint pain has gotten.All of them are hiding something.One falls in love with a boy she thought she despised.One almost sets her crush on fire with a flaming marshmallow.One has a crush that could change everything.None of them are the same at the end of the summer.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Summer of Impossibilities
• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1419741128
• ISBN 13: 9781419741128
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Four mismatched girls spend an unforgettable summer together in a funny, heartfelt YA novel for fans of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Four girls are forced to spend the summer together when their moms reunite at their childhood lake house. What happens next involves midnight boat rides, flaming marshmallows, sandbar parties, crushes and heartache, and a summer they’ll never forget.

Always-sunny Skyler is a softball star who’s hiding how bad her joint pain has gotten. Always-stormy Scarlett, Skyler’s twin, would much rather be hanging out with her boyfriend back home. Amelia Grace just wants to escape her conservative stepdad after he caught her kissing a girl. And homeschooled social-media star Ellie is just excited at the chance to make some friends IRL.

The girls are facing a long few months together, until they find the remnants of a secret society whose rules included playing poker, wearing pearls, telling the truth . . . and accomplishing something impossible by the end of the summer.

“Allen’s well-rounded, realistic teen characters grow throughout, and she interlaces the story with complicated relationships that reveal each character’s idea of friendship . . . An engaging coming-of-age story.” —Kirkus

About the Author

Rachael Allen is the winner of the 2019 Georgia YA Author of the Year Award, whose books include 17 First Kisses, The Revenge Playbook, and A Taxonomy of Love, which was a Junior Library Guild selection and a 2018 Book All Young Georgians Should Read. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, two children, and two sled dogs.