True Blue

It’s 1972 in Chickasaw, Alabama—a time when kids ride their bikes all over town, spend lazy summer days finding shapes in the clouds, squirt each other with the water hose, catch lightning bugs in a jar, and play outside until the streetlights come on. Best friends Jeana, Wade, and Billy Joe have lived on the same street all their lives, but things start to change the summer after the fourth grade. The boys begin to look at Jeana and each other differently, and puberty is getting close to rearing its ugly head. Can the three of them stay friends, or will someone’s heart get broken? And who is that new boy in Chickasaw with the royal blue eyes?

Fans of Stand By Me and Bridge to Terabithia will love the friendship bond between the characters and how it’s affected by the sweet adolescent love story reminiscent of The Wonder Years. This is a book about growing up that’s both for kids who are still in the middle of it, and for adults who want to remember what it was like.