Somebody Else's Summer

By Jean Little

Book Overview

A wise, tender, and funny summer adventure story from one of Canada's most beloved writers for children. On a flight from Vancouver to Toronto, two girls meet, forming an unlikely friendship. Tall, athletic Samantha is going to spend the summer with a family friend while her father is in South America. Alexis, a shy girl who likes books, is being sent to a horse farm to learn how to ride while her mother and stepfather are travelling in Australia. As they talk, Sam and Alex realize they'd each rather be doing what the other is: Sam's elderly hostess runs a bookshop, and the family Alex is staying with is young and boisterous. By the time their flight lands in Toronto, the girls have hatched their plot. They're going to trade places for the summer. After all, the people they're going to visit have never met them, and their own parents are far away and hard to contact. But will they manage to pull it off? For how long? And with what consequences?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670044660
• ISBN13: 9780670044665
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully charming

This is a wonderfully charming book about two girls that are going to spend their summers with families they have never met before and doing activities that they hate. They meet each other on the plane and decide to switch places since they will be close to each other anyways. This is a delightful, although non-realistic, novel about the lives of these two girls and how they grow as people together and individually. The writing style is excellent and draws you in. The ending is a little abrupt, but otherwise it is wonderful and delightful book.