Holly Jolly Summer

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Christmas, Kentucky, is a summer tourist destination for its holiday-themed shops, ornament-sprouting potted palms, giant snow globe display, and its cheerful residents-including the mayor's daughter, fifteen-year-old Darby Peacher. But as Darby stumbles her way into a job at the town's rundown amusement park, Holly Jolly Land, her summer quickly goes from merry to miserable: a boy of Christmas present is absent, a boy of Christmas past is her supervisor, and the town seems to be losing its cheer as it strives to become more commercial. As she tries to sort out her love life, Darby grows positively Scroogey until she gets wrapped up in reinventing Holly Jolly Land-and the town-as the wonderland it once was. Before long she finds romance and rediscovers the magic of Christmas in this funny feel-good story celebrating a small town where the holiday season runs year-round.

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"It's the setting that shines in this well-paced debut. Christmas, Kentucky, calls to mind Gilmore Girls' Stars Hollow with its range of cantankerous to surprisingly handsome denizens . . . A sweet country-tinged romance for Christmas fanatics." --Booklist

"Stewart's debut is full of holiday flavor and humor . . . [A] sweet young adult romance." --School Library Journal

"[A] lighthearted, plot-driven, coming-of-age novel." --Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Tiffany Stewart has been writing stories about teenagers since she was in third grade and realised teenagers are the coolest people on the planet. Now, she has a son in third grade who writes stories of his own and a daughter in college who is the coolest person on the planet. Tiffany lives in Tennessee.