No Boy Summer: A Novel

ISBN: 1419757520

Author: Spalding, Amy

Condition: New

In Amy Spaldings young adult novel No Boy Summer, Lydia and her younger sister, Penny, make a pact to avoid boy drama for the summer-but Lydia cant help looking for a loophole when she falls for a cute girl.Lydia Jones and her younger sister, Penny, have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydias standing with her schools theater tech club and Pennys perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys.Deciding to stay with their Aunt Grace and her boyfriend, Oscar, in Los Angeles while their parents are off on a European cruise, Penny follows her future business-school dreams with an internship at Oscars office, and Lydia gets a part-time job at Graces neighborhood coffeeshop, Grounds Control. Even when they spent hours, days, weeks dissecting their various boy drama, Lydias never felt this connected to her sister before, and it makes her wonder what else in her life could be different. She finds herself drawn to a group of friends she meets through her Grounds Control coworker Margaret, as well as an intriguing customer, Fran, an aspiring filmmaker and-while not the first girl Lydia has found herself attracted to-the first girl who has mutual feelings for her. But shes not breaking her pledge to Penny, right? That was just about boys.Even though in her heart Lydia knows shes bending the rules, she hasnt had a connection with anyone as strong as her connection with Fran, so she thinks it cant be wrong. And Penny wont mind as long as shes happy . . . right?