num_pages: 176
description: Give the unexpected a chance. That's the advice Chloe gets from her stepfather before she heads off to Florida to spend the summer with her aunt Bernadette. It turns out to be excellent advice, because everything about Bernadette is unexpected: her job driving a food service wagon, her big, slobbery dog, her Rollerblading skill, her unorthodox way of teaching Chloe to swim. But nothing is as unexpected as the war that erupts when the other drivers start wearing T-back swimsuits to work, and some community leaders mount a protest against the skimpy suits. Bernadette is caught in the middle of the controversy...and what starts as an innocent game for Chloe may just make things worse.
language: English
title: T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit
titlecomplete: T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit
genres: Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 459
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers