Somebody Else's Summer

Somebody Else's Summer

By Jean Little

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Grades 4 - 8Grade 5n/a4.637670
On a flight from Vancouver to Toronto, two girls meet, forming an unlikely friendship. Tall, athletic Samantha is going to spend the summer with a family friend while her father is in South America. Alexis, a shy girl who likes books, is being sent to a horse farm to learn how to ride while her mother and stepfather are travelling in Australia.

By the time their flight lands in Toronto, the girls have hatched their plots. They're going to trade places for the summer. After all, the people they're going to visit have never met them, and their parents are far away and hard to contact. But will they manage to pull it off? For how long? And with what consequences?

Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN-13: 9780670044665
ISBN-10: 0670044660
Published on 4/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192

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I really love this book. Alex and Sam switch summers. Sam is athletic so she trades with Alex for the riding camp, so Alex can read all she wants. 5 stars. Jean Little has made a wonderful book stuffed with happines, suspense, cliffhangers, mystery, sadness, and more. This is my first Jean Little book and I want to read another one. Somebody Else's Summer is about 2 girls who do not like where they are going for the summer. Alex and Sam risk spending the entire summer with different names, people, activities, and more. I am surprised no one has commented on this book yet because it is amazing. If I were Alex or Sam I would have done the same thing. I think it was brave of them to switch. In the middle of the book they meet old Mr. Carr who is keeping their secret safe. Mr. Carr dies in the book. All in all this book is amazing and you should read it.