Summer Vacation

 

Abbott, Hailey. Summer Girls

Cousins Jessica, Lara, and Greer, aged fifteen to sixteen, approach their family summer at a Maine beach cottage with very different attitudes, but all look forward to meeting new boys and having some fun. 

  

Applegate, Katherine. Tan lines: A Summer Novel

Summer can't wait to get back to the Florida Keys where she, Marquez and Diana have already decided to get an apartment. But even with her friends by her side, Summer is in for more boy trouble. 

 

Bradbury, Jennifer. Shift

When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened. 

 

Bray, Libba. Vacations From Hell

Five short stories in which a vacation takes a supernatural turn. 

 

Calame, Dan.   Swim the Fly

15-year-old Matt Gratton and his best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's is to see a naked girl for the first time--quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date. But catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt's other summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) as a way to impress Kelly West, the sizzling new star of the swim team.

 

Dahl, Lesley. The Problem With Paradise

Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences that include learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.

 

Dessen, Sarah.  Along for the Ride

When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.            

 

Elkeles, Simone. How to Ruin A Summer Vacation

When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three- month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.

 

Fink, Mark. The Summer I Got A Life

Andy Crenshaw, 15, is about to have a summer he didn't expect. He lives in the shadow of his good-looking, athletic older brother, Brad, and they don't get along. Lately they only agree on their excitement over their upcoming trip to Hawaii. But the family's plans change at the last minute, packing the boys off to rural Wisconsin. They'll be stuck with their wacky, free-spirited aunt and uncle--on a farm with no cable TV and Internet. Things start looking up when Andy scores a date withLaura, a cute teenage local celebrity pianist, and even Brad's impressed. Laura's amazing: besides her late night jam sessions at a local jazz club, she's the funniest, little-bit-crazy girl Andy's ever met. He's shocked at first to see her in a wheelchair, but nothing stops Laura--her killer bowling skills leave Andy in the dust. Meanwhile, Andy and Brad share a series of misadventures and narrow escapes that move their brotherhood to a whole different level. It all adds up to a summer no one will soon forget.  

 

Frankel, Valerie. Fringe Benefits

Instead of the European vacations and sleepaway camps of summers past, Dora finds herself stuck in Brooklyn after her junior year at the Brownstone Collegiate Institute, waitressing at an exclusive tennis and squash club where new responsibilities and exciting relationships abound.

 

Gehrman, Jody Elizabeth. Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Sixteen-year-olds Geena, Hero, and Amber spend the summer working at a Sonoma, California coffee shop, where they experience romance, identity crises, and newfound friendships.

 

Natalie's mother, a veterinarian with a dogs-only practice, has the sixteen-year-old on such a short leash that, when the teenaged son of her old school friend comes to stay with them for the summer, Natalie is tempted to break her mother's rules and follow her own instincts for a change.

 

Teenaged Isobel “Belly” Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother’s best friend’s beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever. (sequel to the Summer I Turned Pretty)

 

Johnson, Harriet McBryde.  Accidents of Nature

While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship. 

 

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. 

 

Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado. 

 

During the summer vacations of his thirteenth through his sixteenth year at the family's lake cottage, Luke realizes that although some things stay the same over the years that many more change.

  

Shreve, Susan Richards. Under the Watson’s Porch

Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.

 

Taylor, Greg. Killer Pizza: A Novel

While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters.