  | Second chance summer Author: Kapit, Sarah | |
| Price: $22.58 | ||
Summary:
When twelve-year-old former best friends Maddie and Chloe arrive at camp and discover they are cabin mates, they must decide if they want to continue staying mad at each other or give their friendship another go.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 4.10 Points: 8.0 Quiz: 519675 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (04/01/23)
Booklist (+) (12/01/23)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (A) (00/05/23)
The Hornbook (00/05/23)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 04/01/2023 *Starred Review* With the same intersectional spirit that elevated her previous two novels, Kapit has the moms of 12-year-old Maddie—a self-described “chubby Jewish girl” with dyspraxia, which manifests as intermittent but serious lack of physical coordination—drop her off at theater camp, where she finds herself sharing a cabin with former bestie Chloe just months after their friendship catastrophically hit the rocks. The two, who relate subsequent events in alternating chapters, have devastatingly complementary character flaws as well as physical differences: Chloe is a bossy, glamorous, and totally self-centered child actor with a talent for saying hurtful things when they’ll do the most damage, while Maddie is a longtime enabler with a weak will and a reluctance to mention her personal needs. Both, for different reasons, stand in need of a friend, though, and after a busy four weeks—during which Chloe gets her first period, a budding romance confirms her suspicion that she’s gay, and Maddie (who doesn’t lack for courage withal) takes the near certainty of public humiliation in hand to play Elphaba to her Galinda in a camp production of Wicked—the two tentatively agree to risk giving their battered, leaky relationship another go. Readers who enjoy nuanced character studies will be entranced, and those who think friendship is always a simple thing will be left with much to ponder. - Copyright 2023 Booklist.
