Wave Good-bye

Book Description

Five best friends go coastal in this fabulously fun surfing series from Roxy Girl!

Rae hasn't been her usual self lately, and no one at camp seems to know why. Her crabby attitude is starting to affect everyone, including her best friend, Luna. When Luna catches Rae precariously riding the piers, she decides to confront her friend head-on.

Finally Rae admits the truth: Her parents have decided to separate, and even worse -- her father's company is relocating him to Chicago. Now Rae feels torn between staying in southern California with her overbearing mother and moving with her father to an unfamiliar city. Though leaving would ease the tension between Rae and her mom, it would mean the end of Rae's surfing, too. Will Luna be able to convince Rae to stick around or will she lose her best friend forever?

It's all about a passion for the sport ... and life.

Be sure to check out the latest surfscope and lovescope inside!


About the Author
Francess Lantz's beautifully rendered, compassionate portrait of a complex father-daughter relationship pays tribute to the ability of love to transcEND boundaries of life and death. FRANCESS LANTZ is the author of SOMEONE TO LOVE and several other books for young people. A graduate of Dickinson College, she has worked as a children's librarian, a rock-and roll musician, and a book reviewer. She writes: "Although FADE FAR AWAY is a fictional story, I know how it feels to lose a father and to feel on the outside, powerless to help. My father, an architect, died when I was fifteen. I often wished rd had a chance to spEND time alone with him during his illness. Instead, I've given my main character, Sienna, that chance. Francess Lantz lives with her husband and young son in Santa Barbara, California.


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Gr 5-8-This series centers on five surfer girls in Southern California. Tuck Martin and his wife, a ladies' champion, run the local surf shop and a surfing camp. In the first book, 16-year-old Luna Martin and her friends Rae, Kanani, Cricket, and Isobel are junior counselors at the camp for intermediate surfers. Luna develops a crush on David, a moody young man who seems to be sensitive and uncommunicative about something. And the fact that he can't seem to surf further puzzles her. Subplots involve Kanani and her attempts to discover who is polluting the cove, and the worries that Luna has about her upcoming competition at the Western Championship of the Amateur Surfing Association. Pier Pressure is a light beach read, literally. There is no real teenage angst-just five girls who want to have fun and meet cute boys. Think Gidget for the 21st century. Luna enjoys a good relationship with her parents, and for the most part, the girls' support groups are intact. Rae's parents do have some problems, a theme that is more fully developed in Wave Good-bye. The merchandising aspect of the series includes a Web site and an entry form for a shopping-spree sweepstakes. Nevertheless, these books, which are full of frothy adventure and surfer slang, provide some fun escapism for younger teens.-Roxanne Burg, Orange County Public Library, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.


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