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Jenny Han has her master’s degree in creative writing for children from the New School. Her previous books include Shug and The Summer I Turned Pretty. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit Jenny at dearjennyhan.com.
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SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Jenny Han
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Jacket photograph copyright © 2009 by Michael Frost
ISBN: 978-1-4169-6823-8
ISBN: 978-1-4169-9917-1 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Han, Jenny.
The summer I turned pretty / Jenny Han.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
[1. Coming of age—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Beaches—Fiction.4. Summer—Fiction. 5. Vacation homes—Fiction. 6. Friendship—Fiction.]I. Title.
PZ7.H18944Su 2009
[Fic]—dc22
200802707
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
‘It's Not Summer Without You’ Teaser
‘To All the Boys I've Loved Before’ Teaser
‘Burn for Burn’ Teaser
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