Fifteenth Summer (28 page)

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dalton, Michelle.

Fifteenth summer / by Michelle Dalton. — 1st Simon Pulse ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Chelsea and her family are spending the summer at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan, where Chelsea meets and falls for Josh—the cute and shy employee at the new bookstore in town.

[1. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Books and reading—Fiction. 4. Family life—Fiction. 5. Michigan—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.D16942Fif 2013   [Fic]—dc23   2012029540

ISBN 978-1-4424-7267-9 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4424-7266-2 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4424-7268-6 (eBook)