Rosie and Skate

A wonderful YA debut full of drama for two very different sisters. Its offseason at the Jersey shore when the boardwalk belongs to the locals. Rosie is15 and he... » 

A wonderful YA debut full of drama for two very different sisters. Its offseason at the Jersey shore when the boardwalk belongs to the locals. Rosie is15 and her sister Skate is 16. Their dad an amiable drunk is spending a fewweeks in jail while their cousin Angie looks after them in their fallingdownVictorian on the beach. Skate and her boyfriend Perry are madly in loveinseparableuntil now when Perry goes off to Rutgers. Rosie is shyer thanSkate but shes drawn to Nick a boy in their Alateen group. What happens toRosie and Skate in a few tumultuous weeks is deftly shaded complex and true.Readers will be caught up in each girls shifting feelings as the story playsout within the embrace of their warmhearted community. «