Sammie Davis is sixteen and her life is anything but perfect. Her parents have separated, and she's had to leave her cosy life in suburbia for a tiny apartment in New York. She begins a hot and humid summer struggling with feelings of resentment, anger...and lust for the Johnny Depp look-alike in her apartment block. As the vacation rolls on, she finds new depths to the word "love", and comes to understand that with it come other four-letter words, like "hate", "loss" and "gain". But most important of all, "grow".

 

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Walker Books Ltd .

Carolyn Mackler is a young American writer who has written short stories and feature articles for numerous publications and websites and makes frequent appearances on television and radio. She lives in New York City and recently got married.