Summer Sisters
Readers rate it 3.4 (60 on Hardcover)
416 pages · Released Sep 3, 2026 · Dell
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Summer Sisters parent’s guide: what’s inside
Violence
LGBTQ+ themes
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Educational value
A note for parents
Summer Sisters is a classic Blume coming-of-age novel that follows the lifelong friendship between two teenage girls from different backgrounds. The story explores themes of growing up, changing relationships, and the complexity of friendship with emotional depth and honesty. While it contains some mature content including mild language, references to sexuality, and family dysfunction, these elements are handled in a realistic, reflective way typical of YA literature aimed at older teens.
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From the publisher
A poor girl overcomes temptation and succeeds in life. It happens when she befriends a rich girl whose father offers to pay her college tuition. It is not easy, the rich one, now turned playgirl, tempting her away from studies with boys. A poor girl overcomes temptation and succeeds in life. It happens when she befriends a rich girl whose father offers to pay her college tuition. It is not easy, the rich one, now turned playgirl, tempting her away from studies with boys.
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- Character driven
- Unloveable Characters
- Not Diverse Characters
- Strong Character Development
- Weak Character Development
- Loveable Characters
- sad
- lighthearted
- reflective
- Young Adult
- Fiction
- Romance
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ISBN 9780440243755 · Dell