The Summer I Turned Pretty
This book is fresh fun and exciting. 15 year Belly Conklin is enjoying another summer with the people that she loves in Cousins, a place she's been going to since she was a baby! The fishers, Aka Jerimiah and Conrad, are finally grown up, and Belly feels like she can fit in aswell. Belly would be turning 16 this year, as now she feels as if she can fit in with the boys. She thinks the summer will be fun, Hanging out on the beach and Playing with the people she loves, Belly is looking foward to her summer vacation. But that's when she finds out that Susannah Fisher is diagnosed with Cancer, which changes everything. Things are different in the Summer house. Her first love, Conrad is different, he's distant. While the stay in the house was supposed to be enjoying, they need to focus on things that matter the most. Sussanah. Belly decides that it's time she acts like the adult that she is. Choosing between her 2 lovers Jerimiah and Conrad Fisher. Will either of them like her? Because this...Is the Summer I turned Pretty.
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Fifteen-year-old Belly Conklin has spent every summer of her life at the Cousins Beach house her mother's friend Susannah keeps with her sons Jeremiah and Conrad. The summer Belly turns pretty, the brothers stop seeing her as a kid, and a slow triangle pulls all three teenagers through July.
The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy by Jenny Han has three books: The Summer I Turned Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You, and We'll Always Have Summer. All three follow Belly Conklin and her relationships with Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher.
Yes. The Summer I Turned Pretty is YA with a clean love triangle and no explicit content. It is suitable for readers 13 and up. The themes of grief and family illness become more prominent in books two and three.
Yes. Amazon Prime Video adapted the trilogy into a TV series that premiered in 2022, with Jenny Han as showrunner. Multiple seasons cover the events of the books. The show takes some creative liberties with plot and pacing.
No. The Summer I Turned Pretty is a clean YA romance with no explicit scenes. The relationships are central but stay age-appropriate for the YA market.
The Summer I Turned Pretty was written by Jenny Han, published in 2009 by S&S Books for Young Readers.
The Summer I Turned Pretty is 851 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Summer I Turned Pretty takes most readers 13 to 18 hours to finish.
The Summer I Turned Pretty is a standalone novel by Jenny Han, not part of a series.
The Summer I Turned Pretty is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.