Vacations -- Juvenile fiction |
Families -- Juvenile fiction |
Secrets -- Juvenile fiction. |
Spain -- Juvenile fiction. |
Concealment |
Secrecy |
Espagne |
Espainiako Erresuma |
España |
Espanha |
Espanja |
Espanya |
Estado Español |
Hispania |
Hiszpania |
Isupania |
Kingdom of Spain |
Regne d'Espanya |
Reiaume d'Espanha |
Reino de España |
Reino d'Espanya |
Reinu d'España |
Sefarad |
Sepharad |
Shpanie |
Shpanye |
Spanien |
Spanish State |
Supein |
イスパニア |
スペイン |
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From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a haunting novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.
Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as "butt-girl" at school. The two girls were friends as little kids, but that's ancient history now. So it's a huge surprise when Avery's father offers to bring Kayla along on a summer trip to Spain. Avery is horrified that her father thinks he can choose her friends--and make her miss soccer camp. Kayla struggles just to imagine leaving the confines of her small town.
But in Spain, the two uncover a secret their families had hidden from both of them their entire lives. Maybe the girls can put aside their differences and work through it together. Or maybe the lies and betrayal will only push them--and their families--farther apart.
Margaret Peterson Haddix weaves together two completely separate lives in this engaging novel that explores what it really means to be a family--and what to do when it's all falling apart.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 7 Up-Avery Armistead and Kayla Butts are an unlikely pair. Avery, a privileged snob, wishes only to spend the summer at soccer camp with her best friends. When her dad cooks up a scheme to bring her along on an extended business trip to Spain, Avery desperately pleads to stay home. Without the bonds made at soccer camp, how will she be in the "right" crowd when she starts school in September? When her dad explains further that they're bringing along Kayla, a family friend, Avery fights even harder. Despite her protestations, the trip moves forward and she grudgingly finds herself in Spain with Kayla, a girl who is definitely not from the "right" crowd. In Spain, they learn just how intricately their fates are intertwined and are forced to truly look at themselves for the first time. In the hands of a less seasoned author, this story (told in alternating chapters by Avery and Kayla), might have felt simultaneously unlikely and cliched. In Haddix's able hands, however, it proves a compelling coming-of-age novel. Readers will be drawn into both protagonist's lives, rooting for Avery to learn an ounce of empathy and for Kayla to gain confidence in the same measure. Both characters develop past their initial caricatures and when the drama and action pick up closer to the book's end, readers will find themselves quite satisfied. VERDICT A strong choice for most YA shelves.-Jill Heritage Maza, Montclair Kimberley Academy, NJ © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Perfect rich-girl Avery and shy loner Kayla haven't been friends since childhood. But when Avery's dad arranges for Kayla to accompany the family on a summer trip to Spain, the two girls discover they have a surprising--and initially unwelcome--connection. Told in short chapters alternating between Avery's and Kayla's perspectives, Haddix's narrative effectively builds sympathy for both girls. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
For two American teens, a summer trip to Europe turns out to be far more complicated than they ever expected.Avery doesn't want to go to Spain with her dadshe'll fall behind in soccer and he'll just be working all the time. When she finds out that he's already chosen a "friend" to accompany herKayla, an older girl she used to play with as a little kidthe summer feels even more doomed. But for Kayla, it's an opportunity of a lifetime, a huge gift her family could never afford. In Spain, the two white girls struggle to find their places among the locals and their language class friends as a jaw-dropping revelation changes their relationship forever. It takes a near tragedy to make them realize that while they might not have chosen this path, how they move forward is their choice. Through chapters told in alternating points of view, Haddix offers a fully realized portrayal of teen girls dealing with the vagaries of their parents' lives. Spain forms a vivid backdrop to the girls' confusion and revelations, and Avery and Kayla are each so completely sympathetic that it's hard to choose whom to root for when they're at war.The trip to Spain you wouldn't wish on anyone, except in the form of this terrific book. (Fiction. 13-18) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
When the father of rich, athletic 14-year-old Avery Armisted invites 16-year-old Kayla Butts, an old childhood friend, on their summer trip to Spain, Avery could not be less thrilled. But for Kayla, it's the opportunity of a lifetime, taking her far from her small-town life, where her closest friends are the geriatrics at the nursing home where her dad, an injured veteran, lives. Once in Spain, the girls are rocked by the revelation that 14 years ago, Kayla's mother was the gestational carrier for Avery when her biological mother couldn't become pregnant. Short chapters alternate between the girls' points of view as they reel from the exposure of the long-held family secret. Madrid constitutes a worthy backdrop for this summer of self-discovery and questioning, as Kayla and Avery sort out their own histories amid a growing understanding of the larger world. Despite probing some of the same themes as Robin Benway's Far from the Tree (2017), Haddix's story doesn't carry quite the same emotional heft. Still, it shines a light on surrogacy, a topic rarely discussed in YA fiction.--Barnes, Jennifer Copyright 2018 Booklist