Their summer vacation becomes about acceptance and finding comfort where Girls are taken out of their comfort zones in the midst of discovering Each chapter has a short header that sets the tone of each girl's experience.Īvery and Kayla couldn't seem more different - partly because of their ages 14 and 16, respectively, but mostly because of their upbringing. THE SUMMER OF BROKEN THINGS is the first book that I read by Margaret Peterson Haddix and I really enjoyed her writing style with alternating perspectives. This winter had felt brutal and I needed a book about summer, a little pick me up. If I saw this book in the bookstore, it is one that I would catch my eye and I would have to check it out.
Margaret Peterson Haddix weaves together two completely separate lives in this engaging novel that explores what it really means to be a familyand what to do when its all falling apart.I first found the THE SUMMER OF BROKEN THINGS appealing because of it's cover and the title. Or maybe the lies and betrayal will only push themand their familiesfarther apart. Maybe the girls can put aside their differences and work through it together. But in Spain, the two uncover a secret their families had hidden from both of them their entire lives. Kayla struggles just to imagine leaving the confines of her small town.
Avery is horrified that her father thinks he can choose her friendsand make her miss soccer camp. So its a huge surprise when Averys father offers to bring Kayla along on a summer trip to Spain. The two girls were friends as little kids, but thats ancient history now. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as butt-girl at school. Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.
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