Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Meeting Melanie

3.3/5 ( ratings)

A dangerous drama unfolds on a remote Maine island
Almost-twelve-year-old Allie Ward's summer is not looking especially fun-filled. Seal Island, Maine, is a pretty isolated community, and the only other resident kids her age have suddenly decided they don't want to hang around girls anymore. More important, her lobsterman father has injured his back and isn't able to work his usual job. To compensate, Allie's mother and father are trying to set up a business selling pies. Allie doesn't mind helping her parents out, and she wouldn't want to leave the island for anything, but she longs for a friend. Enter Melanie Rochambeau. She and her family are summering on the island in an elegant home that they've just inherited. Allie and Melanie hit it off almost immediately, but their easy alliance is challenged by Melanie's mother, who turns up her nose at socializing with working-class people. And soon Allie finds herself embroiled in a Rochambeau family secret involving Melanie's older sister. The situation escalates into one that could potentially destroy a family, and even endanger two lives.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: September 25, 2002

ISBN: 0374349436

ISBN 13: 9780374349431

Meeting Melanie

3.3/5 ( ratings)

A dangerous drama unfolds on a remote Maine island
Almost-twelve-year-old Allie Ward's summer is not looking especially fun-filled. Seal Island, Maine, is a pretty isolated community, and the only other resident kids her age have suddenly decided they don't want to hang around girls anymore. More important, her lobsterman father has injured his back and isn't able to work his usual job. To compensate, Allie's mother and father are trying to set up a business selling pies. Allie doesn't mind helping her parents out, and she wouldn't want to leave the island for anything, but she longs for a friend. Enter Melanie Rochambeau. She and her family are summering on the island in an elegant home that they've just inherited. Allie and Melanie hit it off almost immediately, but their easy alliance is challenged by Melanie's mother, who turns up her nose at socializing with working-class people. And soon Allie finds herself embroiled in a Rochambeau family secret involving Melanie's older sister. The situation escalates into one that could potentially destroy a family, and even endanger two lives.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: September 25, 2002

ISBN: 0374349436

ISBN 13: 9780374349431

More books from Nancy Garden

Annie on My Mind

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Good Moon Rising

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Year They Burned the Books

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Molly's Family

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present

3.7/5 ( ratings)

My Sister, the Vampire

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Nora and Liz

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Prisoner of Vampires

3.6/5 ( ratings)

My Brother, the Werewolf

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Holly's Secret

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Watersmeet

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Loners

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Werewolves

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Endgame

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Annie em minha mente. A descoberta do amor (Em Portugues do Brasil)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Annie em minha mente – A descoberta do amor

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Endgame

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Mystery of the Night Raiders (Monster Hunters, #1)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Door Between

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?