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Read an Excerpt

The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns

By Chris Colfer

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Copyright © 2013 Chris Colfer
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-316-20154-4

CHAPTER 1
A TRAIN OF THOUGHTS
The subtle jerks of the train rocked Alex Bailey awake. She looked at the empty seats around her while she remembered where she was. A long sigh came out of the thirteen-year-old girl and she neatly fixed a strand of strawberry-blonde hair that had escaped her headband.

"Not again," she whispered to herself.

Alex hated dozing off in public places. She was a very smart and serious young woman and never wanted to give the wrong impression. Luckily for her, she was one of only a few people on the five o'clock train back into town, so her secret was safe.

Alex was an exceptionally bright student and always had been. In fact, she was so advanced she was part of an honors program that allowed her to take an additional class at the community college in the next town.

Since she was too young to drive and her mother worked the majority of the day at a children's hospital, every Thursday after school Alex would ride her bike to the train station and travel the short distance into the next town for her classes.

It was a questionable trip for a young girl to make by herself, and her mother had had reservations at first, but she knew Alex could handle it. This short journey was nothing compared to the things Alex had handled in the past.

Alex loved being a part of the honors program. For the first time, she was able to learn about art and history and other languages in an environment where everyone wanted to be there. When her professors asked questions, Alex was one of many people to raise her hand with the answer.

Another perk of the train ride was the downtime Alex got to herself. She would gaze out the window and let her thoughts wander while the train traveled. It was the most relaxing part of her day, and many times she'd find herself drifting off to sleep, but only on rare occasions like today would she accidentally drift off completely.

Normally, she would wake feeling embarrassed, but this time Alex's embarrassment was laced with annoyance. She had just been having a disheartening dream: a dream she had had many times in the last year.

She dreamed she was running barefoot in a beautiful forest with her twin brother, Conner.

"I'll race you to the cottage!" Conner said with a huge smile. He shared his sister's looks but, thanks to a recent growth spurt, was now a few inches taller than her.

"You're on!" Alex said with a laugh, and the race began.

They chased each other through trees and over grassy fields without a care in the world. There were no trolls or wolves or evil queens for them to worry about, because, wherever Alex and Conner were, they knew they were safe.

Eventually a small cottage came into view. The twins bolted toward it, putting all their energy into one final sprint.

"I win!" Alex declared when both of her open palms touched the front door a millisecond before her brother's.

"Not fair!" Conner said. "My feet are flatter than yours!"

Alex giggled and tried opening the door, but it was locked. She knocked, but no one answered.

"That's funny," Alex said. "Grandma knew we were coming to visit; I wonder why she locked the door."

She and her brother peered into the window. They could see their grandmother inside, sitting in a rocking chair near the fireplace. She seemed sad, and slowly rocked back and forth.

"Grandma, we're here!" Alex said and cheerfully tapped on the window. "Open the door!"

Her grandmother didn't move.

"Grandma?" Alex asked, tapping on the window harder. "Grandma, it's us! We want to visit you!"

Her grandma raised her head slightly and looked up at them through the window but remained seated.

"Let us in!" Alex said, tapping on the glass even harder.

Conner shook his head. "It's no use, Alex. We can't go in." He turned away and headed back in the direction they came from.

"Conner, don't walk away!" Alex said.

"Why bother?" he said, looking back at her. "Clearly she doesn't want us in there."

Alex began banging on the window as hard as possible without breaking it. "Grandma, please let us in! We want to come inside! Please!"

Grandma looked up at her with a blank stare.

"Grandma, I don't know what I did wrong, but whatever it is, I'm sorry! Please let me come back inside!" Alex said as tears began to spill down her face. "I want to come in! I want to come in!"

Grandma's plain expression turned into a frown and she shook her head. Alex realized she wasn't going to be let in, and every time she came to this realization in the dream, she would wake up.

It might not have been a pleasant dream, but it had felt so good to be back in a forest and to see her grandmother's face again.... It was obvious to her what the dream represented, and had been since the first time she had dreamed it.

However, Alex felt something different when she awoke this time. She couldn't help but feel as if someone had been watching her while she was asleep.

When she had first awoken, although she hadn't paid much attention to it at first, she could have sworn she saw her grandmother sitting across from her on the train.

Was this was an actual sighting or just her imagination getting the best of her? Alex couldn't deny the possibility that it had been real. Her grandmother was capable of many things....

It had been over a year since Alex and Conner Bailey had discovered their family's biggest secret. When they were given an old storybook from their grandmother, they'd never expected it would magically transport them into the fairy-tale world, and never in their wildest dreams had they expected that their grandmother and late father were from this world.

Traveling from kingdom to kingdom and befriending the characters they grew up reading about had been the adventure of their lives. But the biggest surprise of all was when the twins learned their own grandmother was Cinderella's Fairy Godmother.

Their grandmother eventually found them and took them back home to their anxious mother.

"I had to tell the school you both had chicken pox," Charlotte, the twins' mother, said. "I had to come up with a good excuse for why you had been gone for two weeks and thought 'traveling in another dimension' would probably raise a few eyebrows."

"Chicken pox?" Conner said. "Mom, you couldn't come up with anything cooler? Like a spider bite or food poisoning?"

"Did you know where we were the whole time?" Alex asked.

"It wasn't difficult to figure out," Charlotte said. "When I got home from work I went into your room and found the Land of Stories book on the floor. It was still glowing."

She looked over at the large emerald storybook held tightly in Grandma's hands.

"Were you worried?" Conner asked.

"Of course," Charlotte said. "Not necessarily for your safety, but for your sanity. I was worried the experience would overwhelm and frighten you, so I called your grandmother immediately. Luckily, she was still in this world, traveling with her friends. But after the second week of not knowing where you were ... well, let's just say I pray I never have to experience that again."

"So you knew about everything?" Alex asked.

"Yes," Charlotte said. "Your dad was going to tell you eventually; he just never got the chance."

"How did you find out?" Conner asked. "When did Dad tell you? Did you even believe him at first?"

Charlotte smiled at the memory. "From the minute I saw your father, I knew there was something different about him," she said. "I had just started my first week of nursing at the children's hospital when I saw your grandmother and her group of friends come to read stories to the patients. But I was completely smitten by the handsome man who was with them. He was so peculiar; he stared around in amazement at everything. I thought he was going to faint when he saw the television."

"It was John's first trip to this world," Grandma said with a smile.

"He asked me to give him a tour of the hospital, and I did," Charlotte continued. "He was so fascinated to learn about it: the surgeries we performed, the medicines we used, the patients we treated. He asked if we could meet again later after I was done working so I could tell him more. We ended up dating for two months and fell in love. But then, strangely, he disappeared without warning and I didn't see him again for three whole years."

The twins looked to their grandmother, knowing a bit of the story already.

"I made him go back to the fairy-tale world with me, and forbid him to return," Grandma said and slumped a tad. "I had my reasons, as you know, but I was very wrong."

"And that's when he discovered the Wishing Spell and started to collect the items like us, so he could find a way back to you," Alex said excitedly.

"And it really didn't take him that long; it just seemed like it because we hadn't been born yet, and there was still a time difference between the worlds," Conner added.

Charlotte and Grandma both nodded.

"I eventually saw him again at the hospital," Charlotte said. "He looked so frail and dirty, like he had been to war and back. He looked at me and said, 'You have no idea what I went through to get back to you.' We were married a month later and became parents a year after that. So to answer your question, no, it wasn't hard to accept that your dad was from another world, because somehow I had known all along."

Alex reached into her bag and pulled out the journal their father had kept while he was collecting the Wishing Spell items, the same journal they had followed while collecting the items themselves.

"Here, Mom," Alex said. "Now you can know exactly how much Dad loved you."

Charlotte looked down at the journal, almost afraid to take it. She flipped it open and her eyes watered as she saw her late husband's handwriting.

"Thank you, sweetheart," she said.

"Just to let you know," Conner said, "me and Alex did all the same stuff. We're pretty great ourselves. Just keep that in mind if you ever feel inspired to give us an allowance in the future."

Charlotte playfully glared at her son; they knew she couldn't afford to give them allowances. Since their dad died, she'd had a hard time supporting the family and paying off debts from his funeral. But that got Alex thinking: With all the connections their family had in the fairy-tale world, why exactly had their lives been so tough the last year?

"Mom," Alex said, "why have we been struggling so much when all this time Grandma could have just waved her wand and made everything better for us?"

Conner looked up at his mother, thinking the same question. Their grandmother went quiet; it wasn't her place to say.

"Because your father didn't want that," Charlotte said. "Your father loved this world so much; it's where we met, it's where we had you two, and it's where he wanted to raise you. He had come from a world of kings and queens and magic, a world of entitlement and undeserved luxury that he thought ruined people's character. He wanted you guys to grow up in a place you could get anything you wanted if you worked hard enough for it, and although there have been times a little magic would have gone a long way, I've tried to respect that."

Alex and Conner looked at each other; maybe their dad was right. Could they have managed what they had done in the last weeks if they hadn't been raised that way? Could they have collected all the Wishing Spell items or stood up to the Evil Queen if he hadn't taught them how to believe in themselves?

"So what happens now?" Conner asked.

"What do you mean, Conner?" Grandma said.

"Well, clearly our lives are going to be totally different now, right?" he said with a twinkle in his eye. "I mean, after two weeks of barely surviving encounters with trolls, wolves, goblins, witches, and evil queens, we can't be expected to go to school again. We're too mentally distraught, right, Alex?"

Charlotte and Grandma looked at each other and burst out laughing.

"So I'm guessing that means we still have to go to school?" Conner asked. The twinkle in his eye faded away.

"Nice try," Charlotte said. "Every family has its issues, but that doesn't mean you get to drop out of school because of it."

"Thank goodness," Alex said with a sigh. "I was afraid he was on to something for a minute."

Grandma looked up at the clock. "It's almost sunrise," she said. "We've been talking all night. I better get going now."

"When will we see you again?" Alex asked. "When can we go back to the Land of Stories?" Alex had wanted to ask that question since the moment they left. Grandma looked down at her feet and thought for a moment before responding.

"You've had an awfully big adventure, even by grown-up standards," Grandma said. "Right now you need to focus on being twelve-year-olds in this world. Be kids while you still can, children. But I'll take you back one day, I promise."

It wasn't the answer she wanted, but Alex nodded. There was one more question she had been meaning to ask all night.

"Will you ever teach us magic, Grandma?" Alex asked with wide eyes. "I mean, since Conner and I are part fairy, it would be nice to know a thing or two."

"I completely forgot about that!" Conner said, slapping an open palm to his forehead. "Please leave me out of this. I don't want to be a fairy -can't stress that enough."

Grandma went silent. She looked to Charlotte, who only shrugged.

"When the time is right, sweetheart, I would love nothing more," Grandma said. "But right now the Fairy Council and I are working some things out, things that are pretty time-consuming but that you don't need to worry yourselves about. As soon as we move past it, I would love to teach you magic."

Grandma hugged her grandchildren and kissed the tops of their heads.

"I think it might be best if I take this with me," Grandma said, referring to the Land of Stories book. "We don't want history repeating itself."

She headed toward the front door, but just as she reached for the doorknob, she stopped and looked back at them.

"I forgot, I didn't drive here," Grandma said with a smirk. "Looks like I'll have to leave the old-fashioned fairy way. Good-bye, children, I love you with all my heart."

And slowly, Grandma began to disappear, fading into soft, sparkling clouds.

"Okay, now that is something I'd like to learn how to do," Conner said. He waved his hands through the sparkles in the air. "Sign me up for that lesson."

Alex yawned contagiously and her brother followed.

"You kids must be exhausted," Charlotte said. "Why don't you go to bed? I'm taking tomorrow off so I can be here with you guys, in case you have any more questions. And because I've just missed you."

"In that case, I've got an important question," Conner said. "What's for breakfast? I'm starving."

Alex's train finally reached her station. She retrieved her bike from the bike rack and pedaled home, still thinking about her grandmother.

Alex had expected to live a dual-worldly life after discovering the fairy-tale world. She imagined spending summers and holidays with her brother in the Fairy Kingdom or Cinderella's Palace with their grandmother. She imagined a brand-new life of magic and adventure would begin immediately. Sadly, Alex's expectations weren't met.

More than a year had gone by since the night their grandmother disappeared. They hadn't received a single letter or phone call explaining why she had been gone. She missed every holiday and their birthday-days she never missed. And to make matters worse, the twins hadn't been back to the Land of Stories, either.

The twins couldn't help but be angry with their grandmother. How could she just disappear and never make contact again? How could she take them to a place they had been dreaming about since they were kids and then never let them return?

Their grandmother herself had even said it; a part of the Land of Stories lived inside them-so who was she to keep it from them?

"Your grandmother is a very busy woman," Charlotte would tell Alex whenever the subject came up. "She loves you very much. She probably just has her hands full at the moment. We'll hear from her soon enough."

This wasn't enough to put Alex at ease. As more time went by, she began worrying whether her grandmother was all right-sometimes wondering if she was even alive. Alex hoped nothing had happened to her and that she was okay. She missed her hugs more than anything.

Life without their dad had been the most difficult thing the twins had ever experienced. But life without their dad and grandmother was nearly impossible.

"What do you think is going on?" Alex asked Conner on one occasion.

Excerpted from The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns by Chris Colfer. Copyright © 2013 Chris Colfer. Excerpted by permission of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.

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The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns By Chris Colfer Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Copyright © 2013 Chris Colfer All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-316-20154-4 CHAPTER 1 A TRAIN OF THOUGHTS The subtle jerks of the train rocked Alex Bailey awake. She looked at the empty seats around her while she remembered where she was.

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Notes From Your Bookseller

For fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth, this delightful series is perfect for those who love a good slow-burn romance. Is this the summer that Belly finally gets with Conrad? Or will she end up with Jeremiah?

Now a streaming series!
Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Jenny Han. Some summers are just destined to be pretty.
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer-they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter One chapter one
We'd been driving for about seven thousand years. Or at least that's how it felt. My brother, Steven, drove slower than our Granna. I sat next to him in the passenger seat with my feet up on the dashboard. Meanwhile, my mother was passed out in the backseat. Even when she slept, she looked alert, like at any second she could wake up and direct traffic.

"Go faster," I urged Steven, poking him in the shoulder. "Let's pass that kid on the bike."

Steven shrugged me off. "Never touch the driver," he said. "And take your dirty feet off my dashboard."

I wiggled my toes back and forth. They looked pretty clean to me. "It's not your dashboard. It's gonna be my car soon, you know."

"If you ever get your license," he scoffed. "People like you shouldn't even be allowed to drive."

"Hey, look," I said, pointing out the window. "That guy in a wheelchair just lapped us!"

Steven ignored me, and so I started to fiddle with the radio. One of my favorite things about going to the beach was the radio stations. I was as familiar with them as I was with the ones back home, and listening to Q94 made me just really know inside that I was there, at the beach.

I found my favorite station, the one that played everything from pop to oldies to hip-hop. Tom Petty was singing "Free Fallin'." I sang right along with him. "She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis. Loves horses and her boyfriend too."

Steven reached over to switch stations, and I slapped his hand away. "Belly, your voice makes me want to run this car into the ocean." He pretended to swerve right.

I sang even louder, which woke up my mother, and she started to sing too. We both had terrible voices, and Steven shook his head in his disgusted Steven way. He hated being outnumbered. It was what bothered him most about our parents being divorced, being the lone guy, without our dad to take his side.

We drove through town slowly, and even though I'd just teased Steven about it, I didn't really mind. I loved this drive, this moment. Seeing the town again, Jimmy's Crab Shack, the Putt Putt, all the surf shops. It was like coming home after you'd been gone a long, long time. It held a million promises of summer and of what just might be.

As we got closer and closer to the house, I could feel that familiar flutter in my chest. We were almost there.

I rolled down the window and took it all in. The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.

Steven elbowed me. "Are you thinking about Conrad?" he asked mockingly.

For once the answer was no. "No," I snapped.

My mother stuck her head in between our two seats. "Belly, do you still like Conrad? From the looks of things last summer, I thought there might be something between you and Jeremiah."

"WHAT? You and Jeremiah?" Steven looked sickened. "What happened with you and Jeremiah?"

"Nothing," I told them both. I could feel the flush rising up from my chest. I wished I had a tan already to cover it up. "Mom, just because two people are good friends, it doesn't mean there's anything going on. Please never bring that up again."

My mother leaned back into the backseat. "Done," she said. Her voice had that note of finality that I knew Steven wouldn't be able to break through.

Because he was Steven, he tried anyway. "What happened with you and Jeremiah? You can't say something like that and not explain."

"Get over it," I told him. Telling Steven anything would only give him ammunition to make fun of me. And anyway, there was nothing to tell. There had never been anything to tell, not really.

Conrad and Jeremiah were Beck's boys. Beck was Susannah Fisher, formerly Susannah Beck. My mother was the only one who called her Beck. They'd known each other since they were nine-blood sisters, they called each other. And they had the scars to prove it-identical marks on their wrists that looked like hearts.

Susannah told me that when I was born, she knew I was destined for one of her boys. She said it was fate. My mother, who didn't normally go in for that kind of thing, said it would be perfect, as long as I'd had at least a few loves before I settled down. Actually, she said "lovers," but that word made me cringe. Susannah put her hands on my cheeks and said, "Belly, you have my unequivocal blessing. I'd hate to lose my boys to anyone else."

We'd been going to Susannah's beach house in Cousins Beach every summer since I was a baby, since before I was born even. For me, Cousins was less about the town and more about the house. The house was my world. We had our own stretch of beach, all to ourselves. The summer house was made up of lots of things. The wraparound porch we used to run around on, jugs of sun tea, the swimming pool at night-but the boys, the boys most of all.

I always wondered what the boys looked like in December. I tried to picture them in cranberry-colored scarves and turtleneck sweaters, rosy-cheeked and standing beside a Christmas tree, but the image always seemed false. I did not know the winter Jeremiah or the winter Conrad, and I was jealous of everyone who did. I got flip-flops and sunburned noses and swim trunks and sand. But what about those New England girls who had snowball fights with them in the woods? The ones who snuggled up to them while they waited for the car to heat up, the ones they gave their coats to when it was chilly outside. Well, Jeremiah, maybe. Not Conrad. Conrad would never; it wasn't his style. Either way, it didn't seem fair.

I'd sit next to the radiator in history class and wonder what they were doing, if they were warming their feet along the bottom of a radiator somewhere too. Counting the days until summer again. For me, it was almost like winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don't really begin living until June, until I'm at that beach, in that house.

Conrad was the older one, by a year and a half. He was dark, dark, dark. Completely unattainable, unavailable. He had a smirky kind of mouth, and I always found myself staring at it. Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away. Or maybe not away... but you want to control it somehow. Make it yours. It was exactly what I wanted to do with Conrad. Make him mine.

Jeremiah, though-he was my friend. He was nice to me. He was the kind of boy who still hugged his mother, still wanted to hold her hand even when he was technically too old for it. He wasn't embarrassed either. Jeremiah Fisher was too busy having fun to ever be embarrassed.

I bet Jeremiah was more popular than Conrad at school. I bet the girls liked him better. I bet that if it weren't for football, Conrad wouldn't be some big deal. He would just be quiet, moody Conrad, not a football god. And I liked that. I liked that Conrad preferred to be alone, playing his guitar. Like he was above all the stupid high school stuff. I liked to think that if Conrad went to my school, he wouldn't play football, he'd be on the lit mag, and he'd notice someone like me.

When we finally pulled up to the house, Jeremiah and Conrad were sitting out on the front porch. I leaned over Steven and honked the horn twice, which in our summer language meant, Come help with the bags, stat.

Conrad was eighteen now. He'd just had a birthday. He was taller than last summer, if you can believe it. His hair was cut short around his ears and was as dark as ever. Unlike Jeremiah's, whose hair had gotten longer, so he looked a little shaggy but in a good way-like a 1970s tennis player. When he was younger, it was curly yellow, almost platinum in the summer. Jeremiah hated his curls. For a while, Conrad had him convinced that crusts made your hair curly, so Jeremiah had stopped eating sandwich crusts, and Conrad would polish them off. As Jeremiah got older, though, his hair was less and less curly and more wavy. I missed his curls. Susannah called him her little angel, and he used to look like one, with his rosy cheeks and yellow curls. He still had the rosy cheeks.

Jeremiah made a megaphone with his hands and yelled, "Steve-o!"

I sat in the car and watched Steven amble up to them and hug the way guys do. The air smelled salty and wet, like it might rain seawater any second. I pretended to be tying the laces on my sneakers, but really I just wanted a moment to look at them, at the house for a little while, in private. The house was large and gray and white, and it looked like most every other house on the road, but better. It looked just the way I thought a beach house should look. It looked like home.

My mother got out of the car then too. "Hey, boys. Where's your mother?" she called out.

"Hey, Laurel. She's taking a nap," Jeremiah called back. Usually she came flying out of the house the second our car pulled up.

My mother walked over to them in about three strides, and she hugged them both, tightly. My mother's hug was as firm and solid as her handshake. She disappeared into the house with her sunglasses perched on the top of her head.

I got out of the car and slung my bag over my shoulder. They didn't even notice me walk up at first. But then they did. They really did. Conrad gave me a quick glance-over the way boys do at the mall. He had never looked at me like that before in my whole life. Not once. I could feel my flush from the car return. Jeremiah, on the other hand, did a double take. He looked at me like he didn't even recognize me. All of this happened in the span of about three seconds, but it felt much, much longer.

Conrad hugged me first, but a faraway kind of hug, careful not to get too close. He'd just gotten a haircut, and the skin around the nape of his neck looked pink and new, like a baby's. He smelled like the ocean. He smelled like Conrad. "I liked you better with glasses," he said, his lips close to my ear.

That stung. I shoved him away and said, "Well, too bad. My contacts are here to stay."

He smiled at me, and that smile-he just gets in. His smile did it every time. "I think you got a few new ones," he said, tapping me on the nose. He knew how self-conscious I was about my freckles and he still teased me every time.

Then Jeremiah grabbed me next, and he almost lifted me into the air. "Belly Button's all growed up," he crowed.

I laughed. "Put me down," I told him. "You smell like BO."

Jeremiah laughed loudly. "Same old Belly," he said, but he was staring at me like he wasn't quite sure who I was. He cocked his head and said, "Something looks different about you, Belly."

I braced myself for the punch line. "What? I got contacts." I wasn't completely used to myself without glasses either. My best friend Taylor had been trying to convince me to get contacts since the sixth grade, and I'd finally listened.

He smiled. "It's not that. You just look different."

I went back to the car then, and the boys followed me. We unloaded the car quickly, and as soon as we were done, I picked up my suitcase and my book bag and headed straight for my old bedroom. My room was Susannah's from when she was a child. It had faded calico wallpaper and a white bedroom set. There was a music box I loved. When you opened it, there was a twirling ballerina that danced to the theme song from Romeo and Juliet, the old-timey version. I kept my jewelry in it. Everything about my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.

Seeing Conrad again, having him look at me that way, I felt like I needed a second to breathe. I grabbed the stuffed polar bear on my dresser and hugged him close to my chest-his name was Junior Mint, Junior for short. I sat down with Junior on my twin bed. My heart was beating so loudly I could hear it. Everything was the same but not. They had looked at me like I was a real girl, not just somebody's little sister.

Reading Group Guide

A Reading Group Guide to

The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy

by Jenny Han

ABOUT THE BOOKS

For Belly, summertime means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fisher boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. She has spent summers with the Fisher family at Cousins Beach for as long as she can remember. Belly has always been in love with Conrad, and finally, one fateful summer, it seems like he might have feelings for her, too. But it turns out, so does Jeremiah.

Belly soon realizes she has to choose between the two brothers who love her, and in doing so, will have to break one of their hearts.

Against the backdrop of growing up, changing family dynamics, laughter and loss comes a poignant and relatable trilogy about a girl learning what it means to love.

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Discussion Questions

1. The Summer I Turned Pretty begins with a short scene prior to the first chapter. How did you interpret it? Why do you think Jenny Han introduces the book this way?

2. We get a great feel for the house at Cousins Beach in the very first chapter. How does Jenny Han use all five senses to describe the novel's setting? Describe similar examples of writing craft throughout the book.

3. What does "pretty" mean, with respect to the title of the book? How would Belly define "pretty"? How do you define "pretty"? Is there a difference between "pretty" and "beautiful"?

Consider these references:

· "She shook her head like she was in awe of me. 'You're so pretty, so pretty. You're going to have an amazing, amazing summer. It'll be a summer you'll never forget."
· "It was the summer I turned pretty."
· "This was Cam, a real guy who had noticed me even before I was pretty."
· "'No.' Cam ran his hand through his hair. He wouldn't look at me. 'It's because I thought you were really pretty. Like, maybe the prettiest girl I'd ever seen.'"
· "Cam looked perplexed. 'Why? Your nose is cute. It's the imperfections that make things beautiful."
· "He was the first boy to tell me I was beautiful."

4. The Summer I Turned Pretty is told in the first person from Belly's perspective, apparently in retrospect. When is the "now" from which she's narrating? How do you know? How might the story have been different if Jenny Han had written the novel in third person?

5. Chapters alternate between past and present-between significant memories from earlier summers and current experiences. What purpose do these flashbacks serve?

6. In what ways does each person in the house (Jeremiah, Conrad, Susannah, and Laurel) play a particular "role"-in the story, overall, and in Belly's life? How does the dynamic change when Steven leaves? How might the atmosphere have been different if Mr. Fisher had visited, or even Belly and Steven's father?

7. "I was getting older too. Things couldn't stay the same forever." What do you think Jenny Han is suggesting here? Recall a time in your life when you realized you were growing up, and how that felt.

8. Belly and the boys love playing "Would You Rather." Borrowing Jeremiah's example, "Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?" What do you think? How do these competing scenarios relate to the issues Belly faces? If asked again at the very end of the summer, do you think Belly would stick with her original answer (for just decent days)?

9. What is the turning point in Belly and Conrad's relationship? Were you surprised by the direction it took?

10. When did you start to think there might be something seriously wrong with Susannah, and/or the family's situation? What were the signs?

11. Explain Belly's feelings for Cam over the course of the novel. Did she ever really like him? What stopped her, ultimately, from falling in love with him?

Consider these examples of Belly's observations about Cam:

· "But there was something about him that seemed safe and comfortable."
· "He'd probably meet some random homeless guy and become best friends with him, and then he'd tell me the man's life story the next day. Not that there were any homeless guys on our end of the beach. Not that I'd ever seen a homeless person in Cousins, for that matter. But if there was, Cam would find him."
· "I ran up to the front door, and I didn't have to turn around to know that Cam would wait until I was inside before he drove away."
· "Here I had this really great guy who actually liked me."

12. What's the point of including Belly's childhood friend, Taylor, in The Summer I Turned Pretty? How did Jenny Han use Taylor to help the reader get to know Belly better?

13. "The old pull, the tide drawing me back in. I kept getting caught in this current-first love, I mean. First love kept making me come back to this, to him. He still took my breath away, just being near him. I had been lying to myself the night before, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go." Do you identify with Jenny Han's powerful description of first love? Discuss the difference between crushes and love. How might Belly differentiate the two?

14. Susannah jokes about her cancer. What was the effect of this comedic moment on the characters in the novel? How did it affect you, as a reader?

15. Which of Belly's three love interests in The Summer I Turned Pretty did you like best-Conrad, Jeremiah, or Cam? Compare and contrast, then come up with a list of qualities for an ideal summer romance!

16. Discuss the ending. What's happened? What do you think will happen from here?

It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

Discussion Questions

1. It's Not Summer Without You opens on a sad note. We learn that Belly and Conrad are not together, and that Susannah has passed away. How were you affected by this beginning? In what way did Jenny Han continue Belly's story from The Summer I Turned Pretty, and in what way did she introduce a whole new story in the sequel?

2. We see much more of Taylor in It's Not Summer Without You. How would you characterize Belly's friendship with Taylor? What role does Taylor play in Belly's life? Where do you see their friendship going from here-do you imagine them staying friends like Laurel and Susannah or have they already outgrown each other?

Consider these references:

· "But for better or worse, Taylor Jewel was a part of me, and I was a part of her."
· "I knew that Taylor meant well. She thought she was doing me a favor. Giving up her platform sandals for the night was altruistic, for Taylor. But I was still mad."
· "Taylor was a crappy friend, not me. She was the selfish one. I was so angry, my hand shook when I put on my eyeliner, and I had to rub it off and start all over again. I wore Taylor's blouse and her shoes and I pulled my hair all to one side too. I did it because I knew it would piss her off."
· "But those things she said, they hurt. Maybe they were true. But I didn't know if I could forgive her for saying them."

3. Unlike in The Summer I Turned Pretty, we're presented with a point of view other than just Belly's-several chapters are written from Jeremiah's perspective. How does this change your experience as a reader? Do you look at characters or situations any differently, hearing Jeremiah's side? Why do you think Jenny Han chose to show us Jeremiah's point of view, and not Conrad's?

4. How do Belly's experiences in The Summer I Turned Pretty and in It's Not Summer Without You represent her coming of age? Is Belly a child, or an adult? Can she be both at one time? At what point does she grow up? What factors have accelerated or delayed her entry into adulthood?

Consider these references:

· "The only person I wanted was Susannah. She was the only one. And then I had a thought, clear as day. I would never be somebody's favorite again. I would never be a kid again, not in the same way. That was all over now. She was really gone."
· "So I took [a beer] and walked back outside with it. I sat back down on my deck chair and popped the top off the can. It snapped satisfyingly. It was strange to be in this house alone. Not a bad feeling, just a different one. I'd been coming to this house my whole life and I could count on one hand the number of times I'd be alone in it. I felt older now. Which I suppose I was, but I guess I didn't remember feeling old last summer."
· "I waited for him to call me a baby for calling my mommy the second things got scary. He didn't. Instead he said, 'Thanks.' I stared at him. 'Sometimes you surprise me,' I said. He didn't look at me when he said, 'And you hardly ever surprise me. You're still the same.'"
· "My mother and Mr. Fisher were drinking coffee the way grown-ups do."
· "'You want an old lady like me around?' she asked. 'Sure, I'll be back whenever you have me.' 'When?' he asked. He looked so young, so vulnerable my heart ached a little."

5. When Belly sees the infinity necklace in Conrad's drawer, she takes it-impulsively-and puts it on. Why did she do this? Would you have taken the necklace, if you were Belly? What did you think about Belly for doing this?

6. Whereas The Summer I Turned Pretty took place exclusively at Cousins, the events of It's Not Summer Without You take place in several different settings; Cousins, Belly's house, Jeremiah and Conrad's house, and Conrad's college. Furthermore, the house at Cousins has a very different feel this summer, than it has for the characters in the past. How important is setting, in fiction? How important is setting to this story?

7. How has your opinion about Belly evolved, after reading this sequel? In what ways do you understand her better? In what ways are you disappointed, supportive, surprised, or confused by her actions in the sequel, as compared to The Summer I Turned Pretty?

8. How has Belly's relationship with her mother changed or remained the same in It's Not Summer Without You? What are your thoughts and feelings about Laurel, as Belly's mother, but also as a character in her own right?

Consider these references:

· "I wanted to scream at her, to tell her how insensitive, how cruel she was, and couldn't she see my heart was literally breaking? But when I looked up at her face, I bit back the words and swallowed them down. She was right."
· "Everything was wrong, and most of all me. Suddenly I just wanted my mother."
· "Her words stung me so badly I wanted to hurt her back a million times worse. So I said the thing I knew would hurt her most. I said, 'I wish Susannah was my mother and not you.'"
· "I looked over at Conrad, and he said in a low voice, to no one in particular, 'Laurel is amazing.' I'd never heard anyone describe my mom that way, especially not Conrad. I'd never thought of her as 'amazing.' But in that moment, she was. She truly was."

9. Belly acknowledges her unrequited love for Conrad; "It wasn't like how it was with Conrad and Aubrey. He'd loved her. Once upon a time, he'd been crazy about her. He had never been that way with me. Never. But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which, to be honest, was almost a relief." What does Belly mean here? Do you believe her?

10. Belly and Jeremiah's kiss was passionate, intense, and immensely meaningful to both of them. Describe a time when you've felt like "the earth stopped turning."

11. Belly returns the infinity necklace that she'd taken from Conrad's desk. What did this moment signify to Belly? To Conrad? Discuss the symbolism of the necklace.

12. Who is the "you" in the title of the book?

13. Like in The Summer I Turned Pretty, this next book in the series ends with a mysterious preview of what's to come. "A couple of years later" gives us a snapshot of Belly's wedding day. Whom do you think she will marry? Why does Jenny Han conclude the novel in this way?

We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

Discussion Questions

1. We can tell a lot about a person by the company she keeps. In We'll Always Have Summer, we're introduced to Belly's friendship with Anika, in addition to her ongoing friendship with Taylor. How are the friendships similar? How are they different? What roles do Taylor and Anika play, respectively, in Belly's life, at the time when the novel takes place?

2. When Belly tells Anika about Jeremiah's infidelity, Anika replies, "Keeping a secret like that from the person you love is probably the worst part." We learn of several secrets in We'll Always Have Summer-Jeremiah's, Belly's, Conrad's. How much of what happens in this third novel is influenced by secrets? Is it ever okay to keep secrets? Is it ever okay to keep secrets from the people you love, in particular?

3. We'll Always Have Summer is the most nostalgic of the three books in Jenny Han's series. The title evokes the warmth and comforting permanence of memories. Belly is particularly touched by her memories of growing up at Cousins Beach, especially as represented by the images she recalls of Jeremiah and Conrad. Discuss Belly's reaction to her realization that she's had the story of Rosie, the dog, all wrong in her memory: "What else had I remembered wrong? I was a person who loved to play Remember When in my head. I'd always prided myself on how I remembered every detail. It scared me to think that my memories could be just ever-so-slightly wrong." How much of Belly's love for Jeremiah and Conrad is based on memories? How much weight can we assign to memories, as a foundation for current relationships? What kind of value does Belly put on her memories?

4. Belly's conflicting feelings for Jeremiah and Conrad come to a head in We'll Always Have Summer. As Belly grapples with determining how she's feeling, she's simultaneously struggling to control her feelings. Is it even possible for people to control love? Discuss what the following quote means to you, and the extent to which you agree that feelings can be safely tucked away.

· "I'd thought my feelings for Conrad were safely tucked away, like my old Rollerblades and the little gold watch my dad bought me when I first learned how to tell time."

5. Describe your first love. How has this first experience shaped who you are today? Discuss the significance of first love, versus "last" love, as movingly articulated by Belly:

· "Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, even seventeen years old. For the rest of my life, I would think of him fondly, the way you do your first pet, the first car you drove. Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important. And Jeremiah, he was going to be my last and my every and my always."

6. Taylor insists, "You should have everything you want, Belly . . . You only get married once." Describe your ideal wedding. What would you prefer to have, but could do without, when push comes to shove? What features of your dream wedding are "deal breakers"-what do you consider absolutely imperative?

7. One of the hardest parts about going away to college-or moving, or simply starting a new school, for that matter-is making friends. Belly is tremendously relieved to be invited to her hallmate's room to hang out with the girls. She confides, "maybe these were my people." Who are your people? What qualities do you look for in new friends? What advice would you have shared with Belly for making friends that first semester of college?

8. Belly's feelings for Conrad are profoundly conflicted throughout the three books in Jenny Han's series. In regards to whether or not Conrad would attend Belly and Jeremiah's wedding, Belly admits, "I think I was afraid. Afraid that he was coming and afraid that he wasn't." What does she mean by this?

9. Finally, after hearing Belly's point of view, and then Jeremiah's beginning, in It's Not Summer Without You we have a window inside Conrad's mind. How did your impression of Conrad change at this point? Why do think Jenny Han chose not to feature Conrad's point of view until now? Why show shifting points of view (besides Belly's) in the first place-what effect does this have on how you interpret the story?

10. We see Belly's relationship with her mother evolve throughout the three books in the series. In We'll Always Have Summer, we're privy to a compelling power dynamic between mother and daughter that hasn't been as evident in the past. What is this power dynamic, and to what do you attribute it? How would you characterize the nature of Belly and Laurel's relationship?

Consider the following examples:

· "And she was bluffing. She had to be bluffing. No matter how upset or disappointed she was in me, I couldn't believe that she would miss her only daughter's wedding. I just couldn't."
· "Alone in my car again, I cried loud, ragged sobs. I cried until my throat hurt. I was mad at my mom, but bigger than that was this overwhelming, heavy sadness. I was grown up to do things on my own, without her. I could get married, I could quit my job. I was a big girl now. I didn't have to ask for permission. My mother was no longer all powerful. Part of me wished she could be."

11. How important is it to you that your family accepts your significant other and the choices you make with him/her? Furthermore, how important is it for you to have your friends' blessings?

12. Although she attempts to convince herself otherwise, Belly is wrought with guilt following her subtle yet dramatic encounters with Conrad: first with the peaches and then when she nurses his surfing wound. Is Belly's guilt justified? Why do you think these moments carry such significance for Belly?

13. Conrad asks his former employer and dear friend, Ernie, "Do you really believe in that? That people are meant to be with one person?" How would you answer this question? Do you believe in soul mates, or is it possible to love more than one person over your lifetime? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? Belly considers this possibility, when she realizes that she has feelings of love for both Jeremiah and Conrad. How would you explain this?

14. Jenny Han gives us plenty of opportunities to compare and contrast Jeremiah and Conrad-who they are as individuals, as well as who they are as they relate to Belly. Belly is constantly evaluating the two brothers. A few times in We'll Always Have Summer, she even confuses the two-like when she realizes that it was Conrad who found the dog, Rosie, and not Jeremiah. A similar mix-up occurs at the very end of the book, when Jeremiah opens his letter from Susannah, only to realize that the letter inside was really for Conrad: "My mom must have mixed up the envelopes. In the letter she said she only got to see him in love once. That was with you." Can you think of other similar mix-ups? What do we learn from these mix-ups?

15. Explain the title of this third book in the series, We'll Always Have Summer. What does this mean, to you? Who is the "we" referenced? How would you define "summer," in this context?

16. Finally, after three wonderfully suspenseful and poignant novels, we learn which brother Belly ends up with. Do you think Belly made the right choice? Were you surprised by her choice? Are you satisfied with this ending to the series?

Discussion Questions for the Trilogy

1. On the final page of We'll Always Have Summer, we learn which brother Belly chooses to spend her life with. Think back to The Summer I Turned Pretty and It's Not Summer Without You. What clues do you see, in retrospect, which pointed to this end result?

2. Discuss the titles of the three books in Jenny Han's series. Who is the "I," "you," and "we'll" referenced, respectively? What does summer symbolize to Belly? To you?

3. Which character changed the most over the course of the three books? Which character surprised you the most? With which character do you most closely relate?

4. Contemplate Belly's experiences from when we meet her in The Summer I Turned Pretty through the final book in the series. How would you characterize her journey, overall? When faced with a tough choice, did she always do the right thing? What were her biggest mistakes? Her greatest successes?

5. What elements of writing craft do you think Jenny Han demonstrated particularly well? How would you characterize her writing?

6. What effect did presenting this story over three books have on you, as a reader? Would the story be any different if it were compressed into one, comprehensive novel?

7. Explore how you think Belly's life will play out, going forward.

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Editorial Reviews

This well-written coming-of-age story introduces 15-year-old Isabel, aka Belly, for whom summer has always been the most important time of year: it's when her family shares a beach house with her mother's best friend, Susannah, and her two sons. Like Belly's older brother, Steven, Susannah's boys have always thought of Belly as their younger sister. But this summer-"It was the summer everything began"-is different. One brother, Jeremiah, is suddenly interested in Belly, but she has always had a crush on dark and unattainable Conrad. And then there is Cam, also spending the summer at the beach, who becomes Belly's first boyfriend. Han ( Shug) realistically balances Belly's naïveté with her awareness of the changes the years have brought ("In some ways it was even harder being the only girl back then. In some ways not"). Anecdotal chapters of past summers are interspersed, rounding out Belly's character, her attachment to Susannah and her desire for the boys to include her. First in a planned trilogy, Han's novel offers plenty of summertime drama to keep readers looking forward to the next installment. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Publishers Weekly

Gr 7-10

Romantic and heartbreakingly real, this novel follows 15-year-old Belly through the most important summer of her life. Every year, her family shares a beach house with Belly's mother's best friend, Susannah, and her two sons. Belly has always had a crush on Conrad, the older boy, but he has always treated her like an annoying younger sister. This summer, everything changes. The beautifully written novel captures Belly's realization that she is changing into an attractive young woman with a growing power over the boys in her life. They include Cam, the "nice" boy she should fall for but doesn't, and Jeremiah, Susannah's younger son. Only Conrad is seemingly immune to Belly's charms. Meanwhile, Susannah and her family are dealing with problems that Belly does not fully comprehend. Flashbacks to previous summers show her struggles to make Conrad and Jeremiah notice and include her, and how hurt she was when they didn't. The novel perfectly blends romance, family drama, and a coming-of-age tale, one that is substantially deeper than most, but it will still satisfy those hoping for a soapy story of summer love. Belly's discovery that you can't always choose who you love will appeal to readers, as will the author's expert evocation of a magical time when absolutely anything could happen.- Miranda Doyle, San Francisco Unified School District

School Library Journal

Han's leisurely paced, somewhat somber narrative revisits several beach-house summers in flashback through the eyes of now 15-year-old Isabel, known to all as Belly. Belly measures her growing self by these summers and by her lifelong relationship with the older boys, her brother and her mother's best friend's two sons. Belly's dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place: Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend's flirtations during one summer's visit, a first date. In the background the two mothers renew their friendship each year, and Lauren, Belly's mother, provides support for her friend-if not, unfortunately, for the children-in Susannah's losing battle with breast cancer. Besides the mostly off-stage issue of a parent's severe illness there's not much here to challenge most readers-driving, beer-drinking, divorce, a moment of surprise at the mothers smoking medicinal pot together. The wish-fulfilling title and sun-washed, catalog-beautiful teens on the cover will be enticing for girls looking for a diversion. (Fiction. 12-14)

Kirkus Reviews

"This book has what every girl wants in a summer." — Sarah Dessen, author of Just Listen and Lock and Key

" The Summer I Turned Pretty offers a hard-to-resist combination — a beach house, summer love, enduring friendship. A deliciously sweet read." — Deb Caletti, author of Honey, Baby, Sweetheart and Wild Roses

"If I could live inside this amazing book, I would. I would inhale the ocean air and soak up the sun, and I would hang out all day with kind-wonderful-funny-awkward Belly and her two known-'em-forever buds, Jeremiah and Conrad. I'd watch the three of them stop being kids and start being more...and I'd hope hope hope that when Belly falls in love — 'cause you know she will — she'd give her heart to the exact right boy." — Lauren Myracle, author of the ttyl series and Bliss

"This well-written coming-of-age story introduces 15-year-old Isabel, aka Belly, for whom summer has always been the most important time of year. Han (Shug) realistically balances Belly's naïveté with her awareness of the changes the years have brought. Han's novel offers plenty of summertime drama." — Starred review from Publishers Weekly

"Belly's dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place. Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend's flirtations during one summer's visit, a first date." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Isabel (Belly) revels in summer. For as long as she can remember, her family has spent the summer at the beach with her mom's friend, Susannah, and her two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly is convinced that this summer, the summer of her sixteenth birthday, will be the best yet. Jessica Almasy is convincing as the naïve Belly. The angst and insecurity embedded in Belly's character resonate in Almasy's voice as she catches us up on summers past through a series of flashbacks. As we learn of past crushes and kisses, Belly stumbles through the complexities of her current feelings for both Conrad and Jeremiah. Then there's a bigger challenge for the families to face as the summer draws to a close. E.A.B. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

MAY 2011 - AudioFile

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