That Summer
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Last published Fri, Oct 12, 2018
This book is about a 17-year-old girl, Kayla Winters, and how her summer didn't quite turn out how she thought it would. Kayla lost her mother the year before and her father, now an alcoholic, thinks that traveling to Laguna beach, California will help repair his and Kayla's relationship. She thought it was going to just be a summer vacation away from her home in Portland, but when she meets Olivia Cooper, her whole world turns upside-down.
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