To Night Owl From Dogfish
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Family / Blended Families
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Holly Goldberg Sloan
Meg Wolitzer
From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads.When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends--and possibly, one day, even sisters. But things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. Now that they can't imagine life without each other, will Bett and Avery (who sometimes call themselves Night Owl and Dogfish) figure out a way to be a family?
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Author
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Pages
304
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2019-02-12
ISBN
0525553258 9780525553250
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"A book written solely through letters (and emails and text messages) is always so interesting to me. I'm not a huge fan of kid main characters but Goldberg and Wolitzer wrote Bett and Avery SO WELL. Their writing styles say a lot about their characters very early in the book and they are very realistic 12-year-olds. Immediately I began liking these girls because their writings are so vivid. The plot is fun and light but not without conflict between couples and best friends, which I also like. I think this is a great book to get you out of a reading slump -- so refreshing."
Ratnasari Cenreng
"literally this book was so cute. i started crying at the end because of how wholesome, i loved the ending so much. "
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