The Lost Summer

This is something that most girls around Helena's age has experienced. That summer before "growing up" and feeling like you are leaving parts of your old life behind. For some of us it happened much earlier, and some much later. But in the end, it happens to everyone. We may not realize that we have grown up and are leaving things behind, but we do it's inevitable, and sometimes it can be very hard. For Helena this was seen all during her weeks at camp. Especially whenever she was around Ransome (what kind of name is that!!!!) and talking about what she was doing as a counselor while her best friend Katie Bell was still a camper and having a better time then Helena was by a long shot. Helena kind of turned into one of those girls who thought she had to rely on a guy to fix all her problems, but that ended up getting her friends even more angry with her then they already were which isolated them from her even more so. Thankfully Helena isn't stupid, so she realizes this and tries to fix it. The Lost Summer was about heart ache and break, life-long friendship and so much else. It showed you that a summer crush can become a summer love (well, maybe) and that most of the time, friends are always worth more then the guy of the moment is. Who else is going to be there with the ice cream and chick flicks after you break up?!?! Teen romance almost never lasts forever, and actually, maybe it's better that way, especially some of the ones in here. I liked this book since it had the real feeling of camp, and of the last summer, and overall I'd give this book a B.