Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their lives--from marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness. Three women--burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues--tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister,...

When estranged siblings seventeen-year-old Niko and fifteen-year-old Aili meet at a selective camp for art students, they embark on a quest to uncover their shared history and grapple with their personal identities and perceptions.

Seventeen-year-old inseparable best friends Jia, Ariel, and Everett navigate first love, grief, racism, and Asian American consciousness during one life-changing summer apart.

When her family becomes a local gossip blog's new favorite subject due to her sister's impending nuptials, Cass Coventry finds her weekend stay in Newport becoming a full summer of frenzied wedding planning and society drama that reveals one surprise after another.

After graduating high school, Mia Peters isn't ready for goodbyes, especially to Britt. When Mia finds letters addressed to her from her estranged mother, she knows she's almost out of time before Britt leaves.

"Sydney is dreading the summer course she has to take at the community center-until her best friend, Maggie, comes up with a daring switcheroo plan so they can both take classes they like"--

"Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s [this book] follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"--

In their familiar North Carolina beach town, Callie and her friends, Talia and Cleo, are joined by the enigmatic Polly, who introduces the idea of learning how to make themselves invisible, a plan that initially seems impossible but eventually works, leading to a recklessness that makes it increasingly difficult for the girls to return to their former selves.

Georgia Thackery is feeling good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College and the relaxing cabin she's renting for her daughter and Sid the skeleton. When a teenager named Jen shows up looking for Sid, they set off to find a missing online gaming partner.

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.