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Rosie and Skate

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By Beth Ann Bauman
Publisher Random House Children's Books - (Wendy Lamb)
Rosie and Skate
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A wonderful YA debut full of drama for two very different sisters. Its offseason at the Jersey shore, when the boardwalk belongs to the locals. Rosie is 15 and her sister Skate is 16. Their dad, an amiable drunk, is spending a few weeks in jail while their cousin Angie looks after them in their fallingdown Victorian on the beach. Skate and her boyfriend Perry are madly in love, inseparableuntil now, when Perry goes off to Rutgers. Rosie is shyer than Skate, but shes drawn to Nick, a boy in their Alateen group. What happens to Rosie and Skate in a few tumultuous weeks is deftly shaded, complex, and true. Readers will be caught up in each girls shifting feelings as the story plays out within the embrace of their warmhearted community.

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48477 words48,477 words
224 pages224 pages
Lexile HL590LLexile HL590L
Grade 9 to H+Grade 9 to H+
Age 14-18Age 14-18
Published 2009Published 2009

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Book ISBN:

9780385737364

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