To Begin Again
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Last published Thu, Jul 25, 2013
After Claire Michelson’s father has an affair with the cashier at a motorcycle dealership, Claire’s mom decides this would be the perfect time to follow her dream to remodel a small home somewhere on the Pacific coast.
Claire is more than willing to move across the country with her mom from Virginia to Oregon, but when she starts her new school things don’t go as smoothly as she hoped they would.
The only friends she seems to be able to find is a few girls named Caroline, Sofia, and Hanna. Oh! And did I mention her male friends, Denton Andrews, the high school football kicker, and Cory Smith, the captain of the soccer team. The two don’t exactly get along, but hey, they’re all she’s got.
What happens when Cory isn’t the All American boy she thought he was?
What happens when Denton turns out to have a few unresolved childhood traumas?
Claire is in for a lot of craziness when she tries to begin again.
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