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The Summer Before Boys - Community Reviews back

by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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Jessica's Book Thoughts
Jessica's Book Thoughts rated it 10 years ago
A sweet coming of age book. A story about how blooming personalities change a friendship. My daughter really enjoyed this book mainly because she has an aunt very close in age to her and she could relate to the main characters through personal experience.
Everyday Rowena
Everyday Rowena rated it 14 years ago
What a delightful treat this book turned out to be. I almost didn't read this book because the beginning of the book didn't catch my attention and hold it as fast as I would have wanted but I'm glad that I stuck with this book because it turned out to be a good read.This is one of those coming of ag...
Books With Bite
Books With Bite rated it 14 years ago
I thought this was a great coming age story with lots of life lessons in it. Boys, school, family. Everything that you grow up with and come to learn. What I like most about this book was how it talk about the war and how it effected her.Julia grows up so fast and so much just over the summer. Her m...
Blkosiner's Book Blog
Blkosiner's Book Blog rated it 14 years ago
The Summer before boys captures perfectly the awkwardness and transition of age 12 to 13. It had a real childlike quality to it, and I really enjoyed reading it. It's short, and I'm not sure if it's classified as MG or not, but it's very clean. It does have some darker (not extremely dark, but......
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