Kayla struggles just to imagine leaving the confines of her small town.īut in Spain, the two uncover a secret their families had hidden from both of them their entire lives. Avery is horrified that her father thinks he can choose her friends-and make her miss soccer camp. So it’s a huge surprise when Avery’s father offers to bring Kayla along on a summer trip to Spain. The two girls were friends as little kids, but that’s ancient history now. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as “butt-girl” at school. 400 pp.From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.įourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. "The Summer of Broken Things." By Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Yet it's incredibly satisfying, especially as Kayla realizes the power of her choices. The novel is deservedly long as Peterson explores the difficult growth of connection between the two girls, one that will never quite reach sisterhood.
Yet there's a lightness, too, with the friends Kayla makes (especially the Bulgarian boys) at the summer Spanish language school. Serious issues such as faith and prayer are explored. Meanwhile, author Margaret Peterson Haddix weaves in more history - the Holocaust, the Spanish Civil War, and even the memorial to the Madrid train station bombings of March 2004. As for Kayla, she's angry and mortified that her mother was used by the Armisteds.Īvery's life continues to tumble, while Kayla's strength surfaces, even as she refuses to read her mother's emails about the circumstances of Avery's birth. In alternating chapters, Kayla and Avery react to the shocking news that Kayla's mom served as a surrogate mother so that Avery could be born - a secret that was never to be revealed.Īvery is appalled that she might be seen as Kayla Butts' sister.
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