True Blue

Adolescent love like in The Wonder Years and friendships like those in Stand By Me.

A sweet and funny book about growing up, for kids who are still in the middle of it, and for adults who want to remember what it was like. From the author of the Unfinished Series and Shades of Blue.

"When you wish upon a star for true love and everlasting friendship, True Blue will make your wish come true." — Brenda Ashworth Barry, author of the Seasons of Love and War saga.

"Sweet coming-of-age tale tangled in the hearts and minds of four amazing characters." — Carrie Dalby, author of the Possession Chronicles.

It's 1972 in Chickasaw, Alabama—a time when kids ride their bikes all over town, spend lazy summer days finding shapes in the clouds, squirt each other with the water hose, catch lightning bugs in a jar, and play outside until the streetlights come on. Best friends Jeana, Wade, and Billy Joe have lived on the same street all their lives, but things start to change the summer after the fourth grade. The boys begin to look at Jeana and each other differently, and puberty is getting close to rearing its ugly head. Can the three of them stay friends, or will someone's heart get broken? And who is that new boy in Chickasaw with the royal blue eyes?

JOYCE SCARBROUGH is a Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. In addition to her novels, Joyce also has several short stories available as free downloads. She writes both adult and YA fiction and is active in her local writers' guild as well as the regional chapter of SCBWI. Joyce has lived all her life in beautiful LA (lower Alabama), she's the mother of three gifted children and a blind Pomeranian named Tilly, and she's been married for over 30 years to the love of her life-a superhero who disguises himself during the day as a high school math teacher and coach.