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Changes in Latitudes

Malone, Jen

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HarperCollins

Annotation: Blaming her mother for her parents' recent divorce, Cassie makes summer plans to distance herself from her family only to find herself on a four-month sailing trip to Mexico with her mother and brother, a tense vacation that is complicated by her attraction to a whip-smart deckhand.

Genre: [Realistic fiction]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #6090133

Format: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins

Edition Date: 2017 Release Date: 07/25/17

Pages: 378 pages

ISBN: 0-06-238017-6

ISBN 13: 978-0-06-238017-3

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2016949992

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Subject Heading:
Teenage girls. Fiction.
Divorce. Fiction.
Family life. Fiction.
Vacation. Fiction.
Sailing. Fiction.
Summer. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

ALA Booklist (Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 CST 2016)

Cassie certainly never expected senior year to be hijacked by her mom's sudden decision to take a family yachting trip at's left of their family, that is. Cassie is already reeling from her parents divorce, and then her mom decides to earn money by sailing someone's boat to Mexico from Oregon, rent out their house, and "start over" on the open seas with Cassie and her younger brother, Drew. Crews will be sailing two other yachts, too, so at least they aren't completely alone, but Cassie's hardly ready to just roll with it. Cassie's narration crackles with a wit and intensity sure to pull in readers. Malone captures her pain over the divorce, bitterness at losing her old life, and her claustrophobia aboard the ship. When Cassie meets Jonah, expert sailor and crew member of one of the other ships, the spark of romance offers a welcome relief from despair. Despite some preachy dialogue about managing life through adversity, solid plotting and a unique scenario keep this journey nicely on course.

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ALA Booklist (Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 CST 2016)

Reading Level: 7.0

Interest Level: 9-12

Jen Malone, author of teen novels Wanderlost and Map to the Stars, will take readers to the high seas—literally—in this contemporary YA novel about a girl facing the dissolution of her parents’ marriage, a new romance, and self-discovery while sailing down the Pacific coast.

After concluding that her is to blame for her parents’ recent divorce, Cassandra McClure is hoping to stay as far away from her as possible. With a summer of freedom right around the corner, it shouldn’t be too hard. But when a forty-foot sailboat appears in her driveway and her mom announces that Cassie and her brother Drew will be accompanying her on a four-month sailing trip down to Mexico, Cassie’s plans for the summer go, quite literally, overboard.

Once the three set sail, tensions quickly rise. So meeting Jonah—a gorgeous, whip-smart deckhand—is an unexpected bright spot on an otherwise dim horizon. Though she tries to keep him at a distance—considering the upheaval of her home life—their chemistry is impossible to ignore, and Cassie soon finds herself questioning everything: Should she go for it with Jonah? Can she forgive her mom? Will home ever feel the same? With life’s unpredictable tides working against her, Cassie must decide whether to swim against them, or dive right in.

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