![]() ![]() ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee in 2007 and Girlfriend Material. With Adam around, Kate feels like she just might have a bit of heartbreaker potential after all. About Melissa KantorMelissa Kantor is the author of Confessions of a Not It Girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, until Sarah'scute,wittyfriend Adam starts drawing Kate into the fold-and seems intrigued. Melissa is a teacher in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her husband, the poet Benjamin Gantcher, and their three children. Any dreams Kate once had of a perfect summer are ruined. To add to the shame, the Cooper-Melnicks' gorgeous daughter Sarah is a bit like Lady Brett, and she seems less than thrilled to hang out with her new houseguest. If Kate were Lady Brett Ashley, the devastating heroine of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, she'd spend her summers careering aroundtheRivierainher coupe, breaking hearts by the dozen-because why not ? In reality, Kate's never even had a boyfriend, and she'll be spending the summer abetting her mom'slame ploy to make her dad jealous: running off to Cape Cod and crashing at the seaside home of her wealthy friends, the Cooper-Melnicks. ![]()
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