num_pages: 208
description: Julia and Eliza are best friends. Julias mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq and Julia spends all of her time trying not to think about what could happen. So the girls lose themselves in their summer hanging out at the resort where Elizas father works. But when they meet a new boy neither of them is prepared for how it impacts their friendship and Julia has to cope with the possibility of being separated from yet another person she loves. Award-winner Nora Raleigh Baskin delivers a poignant look at the way a first crush can come between best friendsand the importance of not rushing to grow up.
language: English
title: The Summer Before Boys
publisher: Simon  Schuster Books for Young Readers