Baskin, Nora Raleigh.

The summer before boys / Nora Raleigh Baskin. - 1st ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2011. - 196 p. ; 22 cm.

Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011 Horn Book Starred, September 2011 Publisher's Weekly, March 2011 Booklist, March 2011 Kirkus Starred, April 2011 Horn Book, October 2011 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2011

Twelve-year-old best friends and relatives, Julia and Eliza are happy to spend the summer together while Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq but when they meet a neighborhood boy, their close relationship begins to change.

5.6. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.



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Girls--Fiction.
Families of military personnel--Fiction.
Best friends--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Dating (Social customs)--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.

PZ7.B29233 / Su 2011

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