Water and electronics don’t mix and Chelsea learns that the hard way. Her parents plan a summer trip to her grandmother’s house in Michigan (she lives in L.A.) and the summer is spent dealing with her grief, her families grief and just trying to move on from a death in the family that rocked their world.Ĭhelsea is a huge reader so when she finds a new bookstore in town, she’s more than a little thrilled because her ebook reader went kaputz when she took it with her in the bathroom when she showered. Michelle Dalton has written another charming summer novel that had me grinning like a crazy person.Ĭhelsea’s fifteen years old and her grandmother just died. Will this be Chelsea’s summer of love? Or will it be the summer of her broken heart?

She’ll be heading home at the end of the summer-and he’ll be staying behind.

No one has ever made her feel so special, or so beautiful.īut Chelsea knows her days with Josh are numbered. As the days pass by in a blur of boat rides, picnics, and stolen kisses, she can’t believe how lucky she is. Josh is cute, sweet, funny…and best of all, seems to like her as much as she likes him. But her summer takes a turn for the better when she meets a boy who works in the bookstore. It’s the first time her family has been there since her grandmother died, and she can’t break out of her funk. Love blossoms by the lake in this sweet summer romance, in the tradition of Seventeeth Summer and Sixteenth Summer.Chelsea isn’t looking forward to her summer at the lake. Rowena’s review of Fifteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton.