16yearold Miranda Merchant is great at science...and not so great with boys.After major drama with her boyfriend and now ex best friend shes happy tospend the s... » 

16yearold Miranda Merchant is great at science...and not so great with boys.After major drama with her boyfriend and now ex best friend shes happy tospend the summer on small mysterious Selkie Island helping her mother sortout her late grandmothers estate.There Miranda finds new friends and an island with a mysterious mysticalhistory presenting her with facts her logical scientific mind cant makesense of. She also meets Leo who challenges everything she thought she knewabout boys friendship...and reality.Is Leo hiding something? Or is he something that she never could have imagined?Praise for The Year My Sister Got LuckyFriedman deftly demonstrates the positives of moving forward and not clingingto the past she also presents a sister dynamic that many girlsparticularlyyounger sisterswill recognize. Publishers WeeklyFriedman has transformed the traditional YA novel about moving and growing upand away into an authentic reallife exploration of adaptation andacceptance... a delightfulfunny insightful journey. Booklist «