SuitabookAdapting to an unwanted change
Anise must leave a hoped-for summer of surfing and friends to help her cousins in landlocked Nebraska.
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Laura Silverman - Author
This is a coming-of-age story about adapting when a planned summer disappears. Surfing, skating, friendship and family responsibilities give Anise several ways to test what feels familiar and what she can release.
Anise cant wait to spend the summer before her senior year surfing and hanging out on the beach with friends. But when her aunt, a single mother, is in a serious car accident, Anise must say goodbye to California to help care for her three young cousins. Landlocked Nebraska is the last place Anise wants to be. Sure, she loves her family, but its hard to put her past behind her when she is living in the childhood house of her runaway mother, who has dropped in and out of her life since birth. Then she meets Lincoln, a charismatic, one-armed skater who dares her to swap her surfboard for a skateboard. Anise isn't one to shy away from a challenge. Because sometimes the only way to find your footing is to let go.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a coming-of-age story about adapting when a planned summer disappears. Surfing, skating, friendship and family responsibilities give Anise several ways to test what feels familiar and what she can release.
Anise must leave a hoped-for summer of surfing and friends to help her cousins in landlocked Nebraska.
Anise helps care for three young cousins after her aunt’s accident while confronting her mother’s repeated absence.
Lincoln encourages Anise to exchange her surfboard for a skateboard after they meet in Nebraska.
The serious car accident, caring for three young cousins, an aunt’s single parenthood and a mother who has repeatedly left Anise’s life may merit preparation for emotionally difficult family material.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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