![]() ![]() Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Only we’re the Juliet and Juliet”), is emotionally satisfying.įrom the March/April 2019 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters. Although the secondary storylines are somewhat farfetched, the warmth of the characters’ interactions, including the girls’ witty banter (“You and I are now the Romeo and Juliet of friendship. Ill be wearing a skirt + an orange T-shirt in case you have trouble figuring. Occasional missives from well-drawn supporting players (the dads, Bett’s personality-filled grandmother, Avery’s back-in-the-picture birth mother) deepen the characterizations while further entwining the two families. Be sure to begin your questions with In the book To Night Owl From Dogfish. Sloan and Wolitzer nicely differentiate their protagonists’ voices, making the emails believable even while the girls are seeing each other every day at camp. Some Parent Trap–type shenanigans ensue, but the story’s main focus is the strength of chosen family. A heart-warming tale about all types of families and relationships. ![]() ![]() But while Bett and Avery are busily planning a wedding, their dads - whose misadventures in China are humorously detailed - are breaking up. Book cover for To Night Owl From Dogfish by Meg Wolitzer & Holly Goldberg Sloan. The girls are resistant, especially set-in-her-ways Avery, but they gradually become non-enemies and then friends and then actually psyched to become sisters, keeping up their correspondence even after camp ends (spoiler alert: they get kicked out). Bett (Dogfish) is fearless, outgoing, and lives in the moment. Avery (Night Owl) is bookish, intense, likes to plan ahead, and is afraid of many things. Their fathers are semi-secretly, bi-coastally dating, and they want their daughters to get to know each other while they themselves are vacationing in China. A REVERSE PARENT TRAP FOR A NEW GENERATION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS HOLLY GOLDBERG-SLOAN AND MEG WOLITZER. gĪt the start of this epistolary (via email) novel, twelve-year-olds Bett Devlin, an adventure-loving California girl of African American and Brazilian descent, and Avery Bloom, a tightly wound New Yorker whose single father is Ukrainian Jewish, are strangers (and adversaries) about to be thrown together at sleep-away summer camp. Intermediate, Middle School Dial/Dutton 311 pp. ![]()
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