Best Friends (Until Someone Better Comes Along)
By (Author) Erin Downing
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
1st May 2014
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction and true stories
FIC
Paperback
240
Width 130mm, Height 194mm, Spine 15mm
181g
In this M!X original, Izzy is used to being queen beebut will she ditch her mean girl status for a chance at true friendship
Isabella Caravella is dreading summer. She doesnt want to spend a month at a lakeside resort with her parents and the families of her dads coworkers, especially when she discovers that two of the kids go to her school. She thinks Bailey and Ava are beyond weirdand theyre not exactly thrilled to see Izzy, either. Izzy has been their tormentor, the leader of the pack of girls who made their first year of middle school so unpleasant.
Once Izzy discovers that the other kids have been spending their summers together for years and shes the outsider, she realizes shes going to have to change her bossy, stubborn ways if she wants to fit in. Bailey and Ava turn out to be kind and welcoming, and Izzy actually wishes she were more like them.
Back home, Izzy knows that things are probably going to be different. Ava and Bailey were great summer friendsbut are they really forever friends Can Izzy prove that she really does have the potential to be a true friend Or is she stuck playing the mean girl forever
Erin Downing (a.k.a. Erin Soderberg) has written many books for kids, tweens, and young adults. Before turning to writing full time, Erin worked as a childrens book editor and marketer, spent a few months as a cookie inventor, and also worked for Nickelodeon. She lives, writes, and eats out with her husband and three young children in Minneapolis. For more information, visit ErinDowning.com.