The Summer Before Boys - by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Twelve-year-old best friends and relatives, Julia and Eliza are happy to spend the summer together while Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq but when they meet a neighborhood boy, their close relationship begins to change.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Vivid and moving. I loved it." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery-winning author of <i>When You Reach Me</i></b> <p/>Julia and Eliza are best friends, so when Julia's mom is sent to serve in Iraq, it makes perfect sense for her to spend the summer with Eliza and her parents. Any other time, Julia would be thrilled to be there. But on top of worrying about her mom, Julia develops her first real crush. The gap between Julia and Eliza keeps widening--until Eliza does something drastic to win back her best friend. <p/>In her follow-up to the award-winning <i>Anything But Typical</i>, Nora Baskin Raleigh has written a powerful, touching story about friendship, first love, and how the people who are farthest away from us are sometimes the ones we need the most.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>It is a rare story for kids of this age that treats such matters with straight-forwardness and without mushy and ridiculously high hormonal responses. This is not "Twilight"; it's a gentle story about two long-time friends and how they figure out who they are when one of them starts to see boys in a new light. There is a big adventure at the end, which ends up better than you would have thought when it started. There is no salacious gossipy junk to muddle up the story. Instead, Baskin writes real-life characters that kids will relate to, especially girls, and gives them a story they will take to heart because most readers will know that this is going to happen to them (or perhaps already has). It's a nice story about a normal part of the growing-up process, and readers and parents will appreciate Baskin's gentle but pointed storytelling techniques.<P><P> THE SUMMER BEFORE BOYS is highly recommended for a tween's bookshelf --- right alongside all those books about your changing body and relationships. There is no AAA map to guide one through the craziness of puberty, but books such as these and protagonists like Julia and Eliza will surely cast some helpful glow on the proceedings.<P><P> --- Reviewed by Jana Siciliano<br><br>Baskin writes real-life characters that kids will relate to, especially girls, and gives them a story they will take to heart because most readers will know that this is going to happen to them (or perhaps already has). It's a nice story about a normal part of the growing-up process, and readers and parents will appreciate Baskin's gentle but pointed storytelling techniques.<P><P> THE SUMMER BEFORE BOYS is highly recommended for a tween's bookshelf --- right alongside all those books about your changing body and relationships. There is no AAA map to guide one through the craziness of puberty, but books such as these and protagonists like Julia and Eliza will surely cast some helpful glow on the proceedings.<P><P> --- Reviewed by Jana Siciliano, http: //www.kidsreads.com/reviews/9781416986737.asp<br><br>"A vivid and moving story about traveling the road between childhood and what comes next. I loved it."<P> --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of WHEN YOU REACH ME<br><br>"An extraordinary novel explores the challenges faced by children whose parents have gone off to war. <P> . . . Baskin adeptly portrays Julia's ambivalence and anxiety in this thoughtful tale that artfully brings the war to the homefront." - "KIRKUS, "April 15, 2011, *STAR<br><br>"Baskin covers this emotional territory with respect and honesty, allowing readers to see themselves in these complicated, yet likable, girls."<P> --"The Horn Book Magazine"<br><br>"Baskin perfectly captures friendship among girls on the edge of puberty, especially the way big dramas work out in small moments. . . . A poignant story of children on the homefront and the ways that a first love can break up longtime friendships and change things forever."<P> --"Booklist", March 1, 2011<br><br>"Perfectly captures the way a girl's life can be suspended between the last days of childhood and the glimmerings of her first crush. "The Summer Before Boys" is a novel of great depth and tenderness."<P> --Frances O'Roark Dowell, award-winning author of THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nora Raleigh Baskin</b> is the Schneider Award-winning author of <i>Anything But Typical</i>. She was chosen as a <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Flying Start for her novel <i>What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows</i>, and has since written a number of<i> </i>novels for middle-graders and teens, including <i>The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah</i>. Nora lives in Golden's Bridge, New York.Visit her at NoraBaskin.com.
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