My First Love and Other Disasters by Francine Pascal

When I think about all the time I wasted last year moaning about how gross it was to be thirteen, I could kick myself. This collection of sizzling summer romance includes a bonus book: in My Mother Was Never a Kid, you’ll get to meet Victoria when she’s just turned thirteen and is having Freaky Friday–style mother-daughter issues-and forms a friendship that transcends time! Excerpt

The last thing Victoria wants to do is hurt her best friend, but her feelings for Robbie may be too hard to resist…

Thinking it’ll be the perfect time to relax and let loose, Victoria never expects to fall hard for Steffi’s boyfriend, Robbie. But if Victoria isn’t careful, the best summer of her life could become a total nightmare!Īnd the next summer isn’t looking any better either when Victoria accepts a job as a waitress at Camp Mohaph with her best friend Steffi. It’s the perfect plan-if only she can make Jim forget about his annoyingly gorgeous girlfriend Gloria. It's a predictable wise choice-but Victoria becomes easier to identify with as she eases up on the effusion and gets into the mother'shelper hassles and the boy-girl action.Fun in the sun-and romance that might be a little shady-fills the pages of this beach-perfect collection from Sweet Valley High and Fearless author Francine Pascal.įor Victoria Martin, summer means sunbathing, swimming, wild parties, and…boys!Ĭompletely in love with Jim, Victoria signs herself up for a summer job on Fire Island after hearing that Jim plans on spending his sunny days there. Readers who aren't put off by Victoria's first-person, fluffball prattle are the very ones who will lick up the fast-reading, Baskin-Robbins-flavored story that follows: In Victoria's breathless words and with lots of easy conversation, teenage comings and goings, and beach and disco scenes, we hear how the divorcâ€še Victoria works for overburdens her with chores while maintaining a cute, cajoling manner how Jim does notice her (if only when his regular girlfriend is back in the city) but pushes her farther than she wants to go when they are alone on the pier after midnight and how she finally rejects him for his friend Barry after the three teenagers go off in a boat to rescue Victoria's little charges and Jim's true spoiled selfishness shows up against the others' heroic actions. The summer Victoria turns 15, she pleads her way into a mother's helper job on Fire Island-''That's this super fabulous beach resort on Long Island where absolutely all the action is in the summertime''-because gorgeous Jim with his sensational 17-year-old body will also be working there.

My First Love and Other Disasters by Francine Pascal