FIVE-SUMMERS

1. (Get free) Five Summers Five Summers Una LaMarche audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC #2093659 in Books 2013-05-16 2013-05-16Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 1.50 x 5.40 x 8.30l, 1.05 #File Name: 1595146725384 pages | File size: 24.Mb Una LaMarche : Five Summers before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Five Summers: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Realism at its finest.By Kelli SpearI've never been to summer camp, but this is exactly how I always pictured it to be. I was always jealous of those who got to go, make new friends, experience something different during their summer.This book definitely made me want to go back in time and beg my parents to send me.The initial reason I picked this up was for the second chance romance factor. I absolutely love those tropes, so I thought it would be pretty great when combined with a summer camp reunion. And it is. But it's

2. really about friendship, and how even the oddest pairings can make the best lifelong relationships.Each of the four girls are entirely different from the others, and it makes their group dynamic work somehow. The beautiful hippie, the book nerd, the poor girl, and the tomboy - but combined they're quite a force to be reckoned with. Especially when they have each other's backs. They had been mostly out of touch for the last three years when their time as campers came to an end. Half returned as counsellors, and the other two were left behind for a few reasons. As the story begins, the tension and secrets are obvious immediately. And some are more of a betrayal than others.Though the story is told from all four points of view, Emma is essentially the lead. And I found it easy to connect with her since I saw so much of myself in her. A book nerd who had never been particularly pretty, but always had a crush on the most popular boy at camp, Emma is how I was at 17. She was starting to come into her own and was ready for her second chance with Adam. And of course, I hoped it worked out for them. But, there was something about him... He seemed liked a typical guy who knows what the girls think of him. I hoped he could be sweet, and appreciate Emma and finally give her a shot. I just didn't trust him. Not with how things were on Skylar's end.Skylar is the girl you love to hate. Beautiful and talented. The girl ALL the guys have crushes on. The one all the guys want to kiss (and more). I really hated her in the beginning. Well, throughout the book for the most part. I knew exactly what she was hiding and it made it hard for me to have any kind of sympathy for her. She redeemed herself at the end SOMEWHAT and I hoped she could find peace and happiness.Maddie's story was kind of boring. Her "secret" was understandable, but not something to really be ashamed of. Not when you have best friends who are supposed to love you no matter what. However, I can completely understand that sometimes it's easier to continue living a lie than owning up to the truth. I did love her sense of humor and sometimes straightforward attitude.Jo is the one I think I felt the most for. Tomboy. Daughter of the camp owner and director. Bossy. A mother who wanted her to be more feminine. She had to protect herself the only way she knew how. I loved that she wasn't boy-crazy like the rest of the girls, but again, I also felt that was her way of protecting herself from being rejected. I think I liked her almost as much as I liked Emma, because she definitely has hints of my personality, too.The story is what you expect from a book about teenaged girls returning to camp and resurrecting their friendship. Boys, booze, games, secrets, and loads more are involved, and I appreciate the author not shying away from sex and such. Because it is real. It does happen. Ignoring the topic doesn't make it true or real. And the drama is real, especially when you take pause and remember these are 17 year old girls we are dealing with. At that age, even the smallest things are life or death. Betrayals that come from a best friend are the absolute worst, and have the strength to destroy everything. In this case, it's a matter of working things out and not letting something that wasn't meant to be get in between years of history. I found myself enraged at times, wanting to laugh hysterically, rooting the girls on, and hoping for HEAs for everyone.Five Summers is an adorable, honest look at teenage girls and their friendships throughout the years. It will definitely remind you of the way things were when you were that age. And if you're a teen, you'll easily identify with the situations presented. I really loved it and recommend it for anyone who has ever wanted to attend a summer camp. Or heck, even if you did attend.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Even though I never went to camp myself...By Mark SchindlerI finally got around to reading "Five Summers" and just finished it last night. GREAT JOB! Even as a guy who never went to summer camp, I have to confess that I really like those types of stories (my best friends in the world are guys I've known for many, many years...). I thought it was incredibly well-written and not necessarily "Only a teenage girl would like this..."The structure was great, especially the final chapter. I think it's a testament to the entire story that even though we "knew" what that first day/summer/initial introduction was like for the JEMS, I couldn't help but smile the entire time while reading it.The closure was poignant without being cheesy. Not an easy feat!And of course, as a fellow Wesleyan alum, I loved the (what I assumed to be) Wesleyan shout-outs: WOW, any ethnomusicology reference, etc.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Just a boy and a girl in a little canoe...By TB...with the moon shining all around.Remember that camp song? I'd forgotten about it until I read this book. When I did, all the memories of my awkward adolescent years spent at summer camp came flooding back: singing silly songs, picking out the perfect outfit for bonfire, the excitement of opening mail from home, holding my breath and hoping that the boy I liked would ask me to dance at the end-of-summer mixer (he never did). Una LaMarche captured those butterflies that were flying around in my 12- year-old stomach and put them into FIVE SUMMERS.While many things have changed since the 90s, the best things about camp remain the same: bug juice, capture the flag, and, most important of all, friendships. If you went to camp, read this to remember. If you never went to camp, read this to feel like you did. Bittersweet, funny, and achingly honest, Five Summers is a story of friendship, love, and growing up that is perfect for fans of Ann Brashare's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Judy Blume's Summer Sisters. Four best friends, five summers of camp memories Emma, Skylar, Jo and Maddie have all come back to camp for a weekend of tipsy canoe trips to the island, midnight skinny dipping in the lake, and an epic game of capture the flag--boys versus girls. But the weekend isn't quite as sunwashed as they'd imagined as the memories come flooding back... The summer we were nine: Emma was branded Skylars friend Emma by the infamous Adam Loring . . .The summer we were ten: Maddie realized she was too far into her lies to think about telling the truth . . .The summer we were eleven: Johanna totally freaked out during her first game of Spin the Bottle . . .The summer we were twelve: Skylars love letters from

3. her boyfriend back home were exciting to all of usexcept Skylar . . .Our last summer together: Emma and Adam almost kissed. Jo found out Maddies secret. Skylar did something unthinkable...and whether we knew it then or not, five summers of friendship began to fall apart. A young adult book with a friendship story that will last long after the last s'more is gone. From BooklistThe JEMSJo, Emma, Maddie, and Skylarare summer-camp besties from New Hampshires Camp Nedoba, which features all the usual summer camp staples: T-shirts and cargo shorts; bikinis and bandannas; waffles and bug juice; crushes and betrayals; a camp director who offers a significant but benign adult presence; and the quintessential friendship pact, replete with rules and rules about how to follow the rules. Emma is the initial narrator, but Jo, Maddie, and Skylar are promptly fleshed out with backstories from their noncamp lives. The challenge for the reader is the mix of brief chapters that shift among the four characters over a seven-year period, following the girls from age 10 to their reunion at 17, three years after their last camp session spent together. Capturing the campfire glow of adolescent summers spent in cabins, in the woods, and on the lake, the sweet rewards in LaMarches debut novel are the moments that reveal the beauty of true friendships that have everlasting promise. Grades 7-12. --Gail Bush "Vivid, warm, familiar and bittersweet, Five Summers is a welcome escape, full of moments that linger beyond the final pages." --Jodi Lynn Anderson Author of NY Times Bestseller PEACHESAbout the AuthorUnaLaMarche is a journalist and blogger whose work has appeared in theNew York Observerand theHuffington Post.She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their new baby. Read her blog atwww.sassycurmudgeon.comand follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/sassycurmudgeon.