![]() ![]() Many of the emails are sent between Bett and Avery, but there are also messages from their dad’s, from Bett’s grandmother and from other characters they meet along the way. The story is told through a series of letters and emails. Their characters are so individual that I can tell you exactly who they are even now I’ve finished the story. Avery is superficially polite, but she worries to the point of driving everyone around her up the wall. She is a good judge of her own limits (for example, as a proficient diver she is quite happy to jump from a zipwire into a lake) but less so of how her example will endanger others. Bett isn’t a rule-breaker so much as a rule-maker. I have to admit that Bett and Avery have a heck of a lot more character. ![]() The Lindsay Lohan version was a staple when I was growing up, and there was a particular age (maybe 9 – 13ish) where I thought it was the most impossibly cool thing on the planet. I am delighted to see a nod to the classic story. The Parent Trap has been given a timely and brilliant makeover in this story of two girls from opposite sides of America. ![]() Determined not to part, Bett and Avery set off on the summer adventure of a lifetime and discover the true extent of family and friendship. Things don’t go quite so to plan for their Dads. To their surprise, they form the sisterly-bond their dads had hoped for and are all set to live happily-ever-after as a new family. While they go off on a motorcycle tour of China, they have booked Bett and Avery into the same summer camp. Both are usually the centre of their dads’ lives, so when those dads meet at a conference, Bett tracks down Avery’s school email to propose that drastic action should be taken. Bett is a surfer and carefree spirit form California. P9.)Īvery is a bookworm and serial worrier from New York. ( To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer. They want us to get to know each other and become close like sisters (or maybe even twins because we’re the same age?) because it’s possible we might become a “family”. They're not, but they DO suffer from a genetic condition that causes this effect.Review: To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer Both insist that this is because they are actually vampires who are harmed by daylight.
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