The Hot & Cold Summer

About this book

Poor Rory and Derek. just as the boys are looking forward to their best summer ever theyre ordered to play host to a girl named Bolivia visiting nearby. "Youll love her " parents and neighbors insist -- but the ten-year-old best friends know better. After all nobody consulted them about making their twosome a threesome. So the boys unleash Rorys revenge: clever schemes to avoid meeting or speaking with their unwanted guest. Sometimes though how you react to a new situation isnt quite the way you thought you were going to. Rory and Derek discover this -- and learn a few things about their own friendship too -- during what turns out to be a most unpredictable summer. With her unerring ability to humorously evoke childrens concerns and quandaries Johanna Hurwitz has created yet another story sure to be popular with young readers.