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Summer

Mark Crilley - Author

Miki is drawn into Hiro’s delivering work and into the shifting relationships among him, her friend Yumi, and others at school. Hiro’s visits from Reika add another relationship complication.

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It's summer, and Miki's relationship with Hiro is hotting up! As Miki is drawn further into Hiro's world, she starts to learn the reality of his delivering job. When Hiro takes the flame of love from a couple at school she doesn't particularly like, and gives it to a new pair, Miki is fascinated. But when he starts following her friend Yumi around, and Yumi's boyfriend starts hanging around with a new girl, Miki feels more emotionally involved. And she's about to learn to her cost that emotional involvement doesn't mix with delivering. Meanwhile, Hiro is getting visits from Reika, an attractive fellow deliverer. Can Miki keep hold of her man?

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Emotional involvement· ExplainedWork· Explained

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Relationships and intimacyRomance

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emotional involvementwork

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Themes in Context

Feelings and delivering

As Miki learns about Hiro’s delivering job, she becomes more emotionally involved in relationships around him and her friend Yumi.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: The plot presents emotional involvement as complicating Miki’s role in delivering.

Talk about: What does Miki discover about the relationship between her feelings and the delivering role?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

The story centres on how emotional involvement complicates Miki’s connection to Hiro’s work, alongside changing attractions and loyalties among the young characters.

What Deserves Attention

Dating and romantic jealousy are part of the plot: Miki wonders whether she can keep her relationship with Hiro as Reika visits him, while other school relationships shift.

A Conversation Worth Having

How does Miki’s involvement in Hiro’s work affect the way she responds to what happens among her friends and the other deliverers?

Reading Approach

As you read, notice what Miki learns about the delivering role and how her own feelings affect her choices; pause to compare her perspective with the other characters’.

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What remains unconfirmed

Feelings and delivering: Miki is about to learn that emotional involvement does not mix with delivering.

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Checked: 1 October 2026.

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