Title: Love in Ocean Grove
Author: Anna Catherine Field
Quote: "Is this the summer Maya Sweeny gets her first kiss?"
It seems time for that to happen. Maya is seventeen, close to eighteen. But she doesn't like anybody in Ocean Grove. In fact she and her best high school friend are planning to go to Los Angeles in search of new boys.
Then Maya's father, who's become addicted to medication he's supposed not to need any more, goes to rehab and Maya's ordered to stay in a "group home." And take a summer job, arranged by the housemother, scooping ice cream in one of the beach shops. The group home has sent other girls from troubled backgrounds to work there, in other summers, but this is the summer the owners' son notices the summer helper.
Can Maya believe that this child of privilege likes her, and choose to stay in Ocean Grove? Or will she hitchhike to Los Angeles and be a "runaway" with her friend?
I'd be better pleased if Maya decided to stay close to home to be there for her father when he comes home, rather than just for a high school boy, but: clean, age-appropriate romance where boy influences girl in the more prudent direction.
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