This One Summer Kindle Edition

I really wanted to like this book. The first page we are greeted with the "F" and " S" word. My daughter showed me . I started to read through the book to read it before her. I'm not ok with a 10 year old reading about blow jobs . This book was returned.

I am 10 and I thought this would be a good and appropriate book for kids without reading the reviews so I am writing this reveiw so the same thing will not occure to you. I get how this book could be good for tweens/teens but if you are under the age of 14 I would not read this book. It has multiple swear words and discusses inappropriate topics. I have not even finished 1/8 of the book and this has poped up multiple times. In addition to what I already said, this book also shows inappropriate images and includes curse words such as the a word. But the most important thing that I have talked about that shows up the most in the story is the inappropriate topics that should not be discussed with children. As I said before I literly read 13 pages of the book in high spirites and all and when something that was not ment for kid poped up I was both suprused and disgusted in the author fir luting that in which was definitly not necessary to include. I definitly would NOT recomend this book for kids under the age of 14 but if you are over the age of 14 go ahead and injoy the book. Thanks for lending your attintion and have a wonderfull day.already oped nuo nd imeditly turned it off.

This is a quality young adult graphic novel and definitely has merit. I'm saying this as someone who has studied YA literature and has a degree in English literature and is certified to teach secondary English. Perhaps not all, but many of the parents who are complaining about the content may be a bit naive about what it going on in their teenagers' lives. There are several themes in here that may be difficult for tweens to grasp, such as miscarriage and social issues surrounding paternity, but if a parent plays an active role in discussing and reading the literature his or her child is reading, this book presents an opportunity to open up communication about difficult social issues, especially regarding sexuality, between parent and child. If you don't want to "jump into the deep end" with something this explicit just yet, I recommend easing in with a novel such as Hard Love or The First Part Last. An interesting companion novel, to compare themes, would be Crank or Go Ask Alice.

This review originally appeared on herestohappyendings.com.This One Summer has been on my to be read list for a while now. I finally bought it back in early November of 2017, but for whatever reason I just kept putting off reading it. I either wasn't in the mood for a graphic novel or I had too much other stuff to read or work to do, and I just never picked it up.This afternoon, though, I was combing through my bookshelf looking for something quick to read while my daughters watched Beauty and the Beast for the tenth time this week, and I decided that today I was finally going to pick this up.Rose and her parents go to a lake house at Awago Beach every summer. There, Rose gets to spend the summer with her friend, Windy, and the two of them are inseparable for the whole summer. They can watch movies, go swimming, hang out at each other's houses - pretty much everything they want. Plus, Rose and her parents always have fun, too.But this summer, things are already different. Her parents are fighting all the time, and sometimes they even quit talking to each other for long periods of time. Windy is acting a little different, and there is a new guy working at the little store in town, and Rose can't help but think about him a lot. When Rose and Windy witness something with the new guy's girlfriend, they try and put the pieces of this puzzle together to figure out what's going on.At the same time, things are getting even worse between Rose's parents, and Windy doesn't seem to want to do the same things Rose wants to do anymore, making it seem as though they are growing apart.This summer at Awago Beach is unlike any other, and it's the summer that it becomes obvious that Rose is really growing up, whether or not she is ready to.Not only is that a really pretty cover, but the inside illustrations are really well done and add so much personality to this book. I love how they are only done in blue, grey, and purple hues instead of full color - it makes the story a lot deeper and more meaningful, and every page of this book is so beautiful.I've seen some negative reviews for this book about the use of language being a problem for the younger audience, but truthfully, I've heard eight year old kids swear more than what is said in this book, so I can't really agree with that. Sure, there are words like "slut" thrown around here and there, but there isn't anything in this book that I think would be all that harmful - maybe the F-word once? Either way, that isn't something that would bother me, and if this is the kind of book my twelve year old daughter wanted to pick up, I would overlook that, because the book is a really meaningful graphic novel that touches on a lot of important things.One of the important things that This One Summer touches on is the bond of friendship. I loved the friendship that went on between Rose and Windy. They loved each other like sisters, and spent all of their time together. They had meaningful conversations and they talked about real stuff. It's the kind of friendship you can't help but love.Another thing that it touches on is parental issues and how it looks to a child. It might not seem like a big thing, but for those who have experienced it, it might help them to feel not quite as alone when dealing with the problems of their parents. In this book, Rose's parents have issues that they try to work out, but Rose can sense it and it really has an effect on her.The characters, the story, and the illustrations are all beautifully done and incredibly easy to love. I finished this book in the course of a single afternoon and already plan on going back and rereading it very soon!

My 11 year old daughter just came downstairs and handing her mom and me this book and let us know that it had bad words, wasn't appropriate, and she wasn't going to read it anymore. As I read through the book, I could not believe the content. I immediately began searching for ways to express my heavy concern to the ALA, the author, or whoever would listen. A short time into that search, I was reminded that the world's values are not the same as the values of me and my house. What I had to say would mean nothing to the author, or anyone else making money off of this. If you have any desire to guard the heart and mind of your son or daughter, do not make this book available to them. As an elementary teacher and educator of 23 years, a book that has a Caldecott, Printz, or any other award sticker on the front no longer means anything. To know there are books out there like this for kids, is sad and heartbreaking.

Please look at the grade level review. Graphic novel. Ny times best seller. Thought “fabulous! Will order for my 10 year old” WOW - super not appropriate. And I typically let mine read a lot more than most. But oral sex, F bombs... no thanks. Still trying to understand why a novel discussing that is a "graphic novel". Flabbergasted. Just be sure to pay attention to grade/age. Clearly I did not. Thought graphic novels were for elementary and mature elementary (ps I have older kids) Clearly I am wrong.

Hmmn. I don't know quite how to judge this one - I am quite liberal but decided against, in the end, giving this to my 11 -year old daughter due to the frequent use of the word "slut" used between the girls, some of whom are feeling pressured into underage sex. It is handled quite sensitively in the sense that their mothers try to put that word and the insult in context. Still, this age range feels like it is targeted at the tween audience but the content is way more sophisticated.

This is a brilliant book. It is poignant and wistful, carrying the memories of summer beach holidays when everything was possible, nothing much actually happened and time seemed to stand still. The artwork is incredible- beautiful blue washes and an amazing mix of the detailed and the impressionistic- and the story is sad and realistic. The story and the art go together perfectly. I really recommend 'This One Summer'.

This book is like Judy Blume meets Dawson's Creek. Rose and her family head to Awago Beach for the summer as they always do, but this time it is different. Rose's family is not happy and at the epicentre is Rose's mum who cannot pull herself out of a deep depression no matter what the family does. Her father, at first is gentle and treads eggshells, but soon cannot hold in his frustration. We do eventually find out the cause of Rose's mother's depression and it is indeed a tragic tale made worse by the locale in which the family are holidaying.While this is going on Rose and her friend Windy - who holidays at Awago Beach each year too - take to renting horror videos at the local shop. While there they get drawn into a teenage pregnancy drama by first liking the shop-steward.There's a lot of growing up to do at Awago Beach and the Tamakis take us to the beach in the subdued tones of blues. You can smell the saltwater and hear the seagull. It's sad but lovely here.

An odd little fish of a book. Pitched as a YA graphic novel, but with plenty of swearing and some adult-ish shenanigans. Nothing is ever really resolved, but that may kinda be the point as Summer vacations exist in a kind of unreal bubble and the intensity of young adult responses to the messed-up grown-ups that surround them sometimes seem more important than they ever turn out to be. I'm not quite sure if I got the measure of this.

This was a nice little story. Not an awful lot happens in it, and it isn't life changing in any way. But I didn't not like sitting in the sun on a hot day and reading this. The artwork is beautiful though. A generous 3 stars.