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Nantucket Red

by Leila Howland
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Cricket Thompson's lifetime of overachieving has paid off: she's headed to Brown University in the fall, with a spot on the lacrosse team and a scholarship that covers almost everything. Who knew living in the dorm cost money? An Ivy League education seems to mean living at home for the next four years. When Cricket is offered the chance to earn enough cash to afford a real college experience, she heads back to Nantucket for the summer. But the faraway island challenges Cricket in ways she hadn't anticipated. It's hard to focus on earning money for next year, when she finds her world opening up in entirely new ways???to art, to travel, and, most unexpectedly, to a future completely different from the one she has been working toward her whole life. A friendship blossoms with Ben, the gorgeous surfer and bartender who encourages Cricket to be free, even as she smarts at the pain of seeing Zack, her first love, falling for her worst enemy. But one night, when Cricket finally lets herself break all her own rules, she realizes she may have ruined her carefully constructed future with one impulsive decision. Cricket must dig deep to fight for her future, discovering that success isn't just about reaching goals, but also about listening to what she's been trying to ignore???her own heart.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Nantucket Blue

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 13, 2014

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781484706398
      • File size: 1041 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781484706398
      • File size: 1041 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.7
    • Lexile® Measure: 700
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2014
      A coming-of-age story with a Nantucket backdrop serves up entertainment flavored with a dose of reality. This sequel to Nantucket Blue (2013) picks up after Cricket's first summer on the island, which was filled with best-friend drama, first loves and heartbreak, and fast-forwards through her senior year, which concludes with a hard-won acceptance to Brown and return ticket to Nantucket. For graduation, Cricket's best friend, Jules, presents her a framed photo of Jules' mother, Nina, who died the year before. In life, Cricket had idolized Nina. Hidden in the frame is Nina's bucket list of adventures, which ranges from learning how to drive and then going to Big Sur to drinking Campari on the Amalfi Coast. Without the funds to globe-trot, Cricket spends her summer creatively living her way through the list on Nantucket, but along the way, she hits significant snags, including one that throws her entire future and hard work into jeopardy. This second installment hinges on relationships of all kinds--romantic, friend-based and familial--and the ups and downs that they bring with them that push Cricket to accept her new role as an adult. Cricket is a realistically rendered just-graduated senior, with life concerns and encounters befitting an actual young adult. Enjoyable and introspective, this is more than just a summer beach read. (Fiction. 13-18)

      COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2014

      Gr 9 Up-Senior year has been a rollercoaster for Cricket Thompson. After a summer full of love found and friendship lost, Cricket has navigated her way through her last year of high school and is on her way to an Ivy League college, with one catch-she'll have to live at home. When the teen is offered the chance to earn enough money and have the true college experience living on campus, she boards a ferry back to Nantucket. A year older and with more life experience, the girl readers first met in Howland's Nantucket Blue (Hyperion, 2013) sets out on a path that offers adventure, romance, and the chance to find herself. Nantucket Red is an engaging continuation of Cricket's story, and its pace is perfect for a long weekend or beach read. The protagonist is fully developed as a character, but secondary figures are not as fleshed out. Sure to circulate this summer and throughout the year, libraries will want to purchase this along with the first in the series. Even readers who avoid "chick lit" will find this story multidimensional and enjoyable. For fans of YA romance.-Betsy Davison, Cortland Free Library, NY

      Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2014
      Cricket is back on Nantucket, waitressing to save money for Brown in the fall and nursing a broken heart. Tenuously reunited with Jules and bunking with unconventional Liz, Cricket reevaluates her priorities: perhaps the Ivy League isn't her dream, after all. Nantucket Blue's fans will eagerly follow Cricket as she resolves to find out in this enjoyable, beach-ready follow-up.

      (Copyright 2014 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.7
  • Lexile® Measure:700
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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