THE SUMMER OF SKINNY DIPPING

Sixteen year-old Mia has sworn off romance for good in the wake of her breakup with a cheating boyfriend. She is hoping that a summer on the Long Island shore with her glamorous cousins will take her mind off her troubles and allow her to relive idyllic childhood memories. But when she
arrives in Southampton, her cousins are distant, moody, and caught up with a bad crowd - and Mia soon finds herself lonelier than ever.

That's when she meets her next-door neighbor, Simon Ross. Simon isn't like the snobby party boys her cousins are obsessed with. He is funny, artistic, and utterly adventurous. And from the very first time he encourages Mia to go skinny dipping, she's caught up in a current impossible to resist.
Harkening back to classic tearjerkers, seasoned ghostwriter Amanda Howells' "Summer of" series kicks off with an unforgettable romance on the Long Island shore, bringing a much-needed depth and sensibility to the bestselling teen "beach read."

Timeless in feel, The Summer of Skinny Dipping is a poignant, literary read sure to dazzle tweens and teens alike.

Amanda Howells has always lived near the sea. She grew up on a small bay on the Atlantic Ocean, spent summer weekends in the Hamptons while a college student in New York City, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest. She is a veteran ghostwriter of such bestselling series as Sweet Valley High and Fearless. This is her first original YA novel.

DER SOMMER DER SILBERNEN WELLEN
Deutsch von Stefanie Schaefer
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