Second Chance Summer
Square Fish · Paperback · May 21, 2024
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when it's with your best friend.
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- Who it’s for
- A summer-camp reunion turns a broken best friendship into an uneasy question of starting over.
- Themes
- Friendship and reconciliation, Popularity and fame, Growing apart
- Genres
- LGBTQ+ Stories, Friendship
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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.
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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?
Friendship, Reconsidered
A summer-camp reunion turns a broken best friendship into an uneasy question of starting over.
Come here for
- The awkward ache of a friendship breakup
- Former best friends sharing a summer-camp cabin
Expect
- A summer shaped by unresolved hurt and possible repair
- A close look at whether old friendship can return
Where it sits
| Friendship | 95% |
|---|---|
| LGBTQ+ Stories | 58% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Theater Stories
- Friendship
- LGBTQ+ Stories
- Authors
- Sarah Kapit
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- May 21, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Friendship and reconciliation · Popularity and fame · Growing apart
- Reading lane
- Theater Stories