The Summer Scrapbook

Cat, Ava, and Becca have been best friends forever. Literally. Their mothers met in an expectant parents group, and the girls were born nearly the same time. They do everything together. But now they are to be separated for their last summer before high school. Cat will be stuck at home while Becca goes away to camp for eight weeks, and Ava and her family are being dragged off to London, where her father will teach at the university for the summer. Cat is a poet and will be home with no friends or fun, Ava is a future politician and knows she will have an awful time, and Becca, incredibly shy, is sure she will have a miserable, lonely summer. But will they?

Author Florence Migga tells a story with plenty of friendship drama and a little romance that young readers will relate to. She tells the story from the three points of view of Ava, Becca, and Cat in rotating chapters. Although the voices aren’t very distinct, the settings and story problems are, so it’s easy to keep track. The writing is excellent, and the story is very compelling. Middle-grade girls will love this book.