Sarah Kapit
children's author
Second Chance Summer
Coming May 23, 2023
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when it's with your best friend. Can these two ex-besties survive summer camp together?
Maddie and Chloe have always been best friends, until last year, when Chloe’s popularity and budding fame as an actor left Maddie in the dust one too many times. Their friendship is over, and they’re both ready to move on.
But when the girls arrive at summer camp, they discover that the universe isn’t ready to let go of this friendship just yet: They’re cabinmates, and each of them has to spend the summer with her ex–best friend. Is it time to try again, or are they doomed to drift apart for good?
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What People are Saying
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
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★ "Readers who enjoy nuanced character studies will be entranced, and those who think that friendship is always a simple thing will be left with much to ponder." —ALA Booklist (starred review)
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-"[The main characters are] each figuring things out about themselves, and what seems a simple case of an unbalanced friendship reveals itself to be more complex." —Horn Book