2016 SYRCA Snow Willow Award — Shortlisted
It’s the best summer of Dani’s life, until the bottom falls out.
Dani’s mother is getting married – again – because that’s what she does, and while she and her new husband jet around Europe for six weeks, seventeen-year-old Dani is sent to stay with an uncle she didn’t know she had in a small community in Cariboo country she didn’t know existed. It promises to be the summer from hell. But Dani’s uncle turns out to be an okay guy. In fact, Dani really likes him. And she finds romance, too.
Suddenly, a summer that had doom written all over it turns into one of the best times of Dani’s life. Until the bottom falls out. In a story about relationships and about how bad things happen to good people, Dani discovers that sometimes the only villain is life itself.
It’s the best summer of Dani’s life, until the bottom falls out.
Dani’s mother is getting married – again – because that’s what she does, and while she and her new husband jet around Europe for six weeks, seventeen-year-old Dani is sent to stay with an uncle she didn’t know she had in a small community in Cariboo country she didn’t know existed. It promises to be the summer from hell. But Dani’s uncle turns out to be an okay guy. In fact, Dani really likes him. And she finds romance, too.
Suddenly, a summer that had doom written all over it turns into one of the best times of Dani’s life. Until the bottom falls out. In a story about relationships and about how bad things happen to good people, Dani discovers that sometimes the only villain is life itself.
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- jC813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781459706903 9781459706910
- LCCN
- PZ7.B96915
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- Tr 2013eb
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (277 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00231824 (OCoLC)795624505 (CaOOCEL)444167
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Truths I Learned from Sam 4
- Copyright 5
- Chapter One 8
- Chapter Two 14
- Chapter Three 25
- Chapter Four 31
- Chapter Five 40
- Chapter Six 47
- Chapter Seven 54
- Chapter Eight 61
- Chapter Nine 67
- Chapter Ten 74
- Chapter Eleven 83
- Chapter Twelve 94
- Chapter Thirteen 101
- Chapter Fourteen 108
- Chapter Fifteen 115
- Chapter Sixteen 123
- Chapter Seventeen 131
- Chapter Eighteen 138
- Chapter Nineteen 145
- Chapter Twenty 152
- Chapter Twenty-One 159
- Chapter Twenty-Two 165
- Chapter Twenty-Three 171
- Author's Note 180
- More Great Fiction from Dundurn 182
