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MONSOON SUMMER Mitali Perkins Hardcover | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | August 2004 | $15.95 | 0-385-73123-X | Ages 12 up Hardcover Library Binding | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | August 2004 | $17.99 | 0-385-90147-X X | Ages 12 up

Jazz Gardner and Steve Morales get along great. Not only have they been best friends since grade school, but they even own their own business together as teenagers. Jazz has a problem, though. She loves Steve. And not like a best friend love, but REAL LOVE. She wants to tell him, but she's afraid if she does, he'll laugh, or even worse, quit being her friend. To make matters worse, she's about to leave for the entire summer to go to India, where her mother is from, to volunteer at an orphanage.  She really does not want to do this! Three months away from Steve gives the school's drama queen Miriam Cassidy just enough time to sink her claws into Steve. Does Jazz tell Steve how she really feels and risk what could be the biggest embarassment of her life? Or does she keep her feelings to herself and be satisfied with being his best friend? One thing is for sure: after this summer, things will never quite be the same for Jazz Gardner again.

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Prepared by Brenda Day, Library Media Specialist, Crowley Middle School, Crowley, Texas

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