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Ivy Raines needs camp for an escape like she did as a child. After going through a very public breakup with her first girlfriend and teen TV show mega star, she wants nothing more than a summer of sunshine, friends and s'mores as newest counselor.
But when she signs up to run the camp's musical production she soon finds herself in a rivalry she didn't see coming with the co-director, Rynn. She's bossy and thinks she knows everything because she's been most experienced counselor. Worse, it's a girl Ivy had a falling out with when she was younger. It's the last thing Ivy needs while going through a breakup but as tension between them builds, sparks begin to fly brighter than a campfire.
As the days get hotter, will Ivy discover she can still have the summer escape she needed after all...in the way her heart has always wanted?
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780593807569
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- ISBN: 9780593807569
- File size: 7541 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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January 15, 2025
A lesbian teen hopes that a summer of being a camp counselor will mend her broken heart. Getting dumped is always bad, but Ivy's breakup is happening in public, dissected and analyzed by an entire fandom. Ivy's high school sweetheart, Ally, now the teen star of a science fiction drama, has broken things off, and the internet is exploding with shipping hopes for Ally and her co-star. Perhaps if Ivy returns to her beloved childhood musical theater camp as a counselor it will give her the break she needs? It's not to be, of course. The tween campers recognize Ivy from Ally's social media. Worse, one of the other counselors is yetanother source of trauma: Rynn, Ivy's former best friend who abruptly cut her off back in sixth grade. Bouncing rapid-fire from angst to romantic hope to anger, Ivy can scarcely manage her campers' dramas or the production ofPeter Pan she's co-directing with Rynn. The mostly white campers and counselors are affectionately portrayed, though they're all exceptionally lightly drawn, primarily serving as mirrors for Ivy and Rynn to explore their own relationship. Still, the characterizations that are barely sketched out don't keep this from being an enjoyable story of growth amid a romantic summer interlude. A cathartic tale of a shy girl gaining self-love and learning to forgive.(Fiction. 12-16)COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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April 1, 2025
Gr 8 Up-Desombre doesn't challenge the tried-and-true enemies-to-lovers trope here, but her insight into the minds of young people provides a depth of characterization in the protagonist that is rare in formulaic romances. Ivy Raines, 15, is newly dumped by her mega-famous girlfriend Allyson Hendricks. Rather than spend a miserable summer camping with her family in the deep woods, she decides to return to the theatre summer camp of her youth to serve as a counselor. It's there that she reconnects with her former best friend Rynn, who five years previously had told Ivy she no longer wanted to be friends. As their animosity turns to attraction, Ivy is forced to confront her understanding of her own identity as she struggles to prove herself as something other than Allyson's ex. VERDICT Full of heart and a depth of understanding of young girls battling the forces of hormones, responsibilities, and social media, this is a must-read for fans of YA romance and queer romance.-Amy Shaw
Copyright 2025 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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