Jersey Angel
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
It's the summer before senior year and the alluring Angel is ready to have fun. She's not like her best friend, Inggy, who has a steady boyfriend, good grades, and college plans. Angel isn't sure what she wants to do yet, but she has confidence and experience beyond her years. Still, her summer doesn't start out as planned. Her good friend Joey doesn't want to fool around anymore, he wants to be her boyfriend, while Angel doesn't want to be tied down. As Joey pulls away, and Inggy tours colleges, Angel finds herself spending more time with Inggy's boyfriend, Cork. With its cast of vivid and memorable characters, this tale from the Jersey shore is sure to make some waves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bauman (Rosie and Skate) returns to the Jersey shore for her second YA novel, an acutely intimate portrait of a girl's efforts to better understand herself and her relationships. The summer before her senior year, Angel Cassonetti is enjoying her freedom. Her family owns three houses on the shore, two of which they rent out to the tourist "bennies" who swarm the area every summer. Angel spends her days hanging out with friends and her half-siblings and working at her father's marina gas station. Nights, she bikes over to her ex Joey's window, trying to get back with him after she's rebuffed him one too many times. While her best friend Inggy goes on college tours, Angel, whose sexual self-confidence contrasts with her insecurity about her future, has a steamy fling with Inggy's boyfriend, Cork. "It won't count," she tells him after they have sex for the first time, during a boating trip. "I want it to count," he replies. One can almost smell salt and sunscreen in the air in this soulful and insightful coming-of-age story. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
This is an excellent book
For mature young adults I don't think it is like jersey shore