You know the people I mean - the Fat Girl, the Tall Guy, the Brain. I'm one of those people doomed to be known by a single, dominant feature. Reckless is the last thing you'd call me. Charles Whitney - he too made a decision like that, way back on August 14, 1945, just as he ground a cigarette into the street with the toe of his shoe, and so did my mother when she decided that we had to steal Lillian. I'm sure I made that decision the very moment I saw that metal, the glint of it in the sun, looking hot to the touch, looking like an invitation. It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different. What happened the summer of my junior year was not about recklessness.

That should have told me all I needed to know, right there. You could see the tracks of it all the way up that rolling hill, cutting deeply into the beautiful, golf course-like grass. The first thing I learned about Travis Becker was that he parked his motorcycle on the front lawn. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

This lyrical, multigenerational story of love, loss, and redemption speaks to everyone who has ever been in love-and lived to tell the tale. They’re in search of a happy ending.but for who? And when the group discovers one of their own members is the subject of the tragic love story they are reading, Ann and Ruby ditch their respective obsessions to spearhead a reunion between the long-ago lovers.

At first, Ruby can’t imagine a more boring way to spend an afternoon, but she is soon charmed by the women she’s spending time with. In an effort to keep Ruby occupied and mend her own broken heart, her mother, Ann, drags Ruby to the weekly book club she runs for seniors. But Ruby is in over her head, risking more and more when she’s with him. With Travis, Ruby can be someone she’s never been before: Fearless. It is summer in the northwest town of Nine Mile Falls, and Ruby McQueen-ordinarily dubbed The Quiet Girl-finds herself hanging out with gorgeous, rich, thrill-seeking Travis Becker. A summer romance headed for heartbreak turns into a mother-daughter road trip in the name of true love in this story of love, loss, and redemption from Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti