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Cindy s summer is nothing like she d expected or even wanted With her vacation cancelled her best friend in Mexico and her mother not herself since the tragedy there seems little to do and no one to do it with. Book Surfboard summer solstice Enter the lure of the ocean a mysterious girl and a lot of surfers especially one very cute president of the surfing club As Cindy discovers a new interest she also makes some new friends and grows up quite a lot herself. Surfboard summerjazz I was pleasantly surprised by this book After years of watching Gidget re runs finally here s something that satisfies that surfer girl wannabe in me I loved the lingo but than that I loved the deep characterization This book is so much than a summer romance but explores the deeper issues of grief and growing up. Book Surfboard summer jobs Highly recommended if you can find a copy I wish I could find other books by this author Surfboard Summer Surfboard Summer is a quintessential 60s coming of age novel in which a teenage girl faces hardship learns about relationships and grows This one was a little unique because of the surfing aspect but the plotline followed the rest of the formula predictably I did have some problems with this story The main character purposely loses the surfing contest so that her crippled friend can win This is terrible sportsmanship The friend was good enough to beat everyone else You re not a real friend for throwing the contest The heroine then throws a hissy fit cries and stomps off for hours then never contacts her boyfriend or surfing friends again This is also poor sportsmanship and rude She also settles for her brother s best friend because he s not flashy or forceful like Bix I feel like the message here is to be a graceful loser rather than giving your all for what you want This just doesn t sit well with me Surfboard Summer Rather Be Reading YASPOILER WARNING It s unlikely that most people will ever come across this book so there will be spoilers. Surfboard summerbrooke apartments Cindy s entire life changes the day her brother dies in a car accident Not only is Hoot gone Yes Hoot Boys in these 60s books always seem to have nicknames like Hoot but her mother is depressed the boy she likes doesn t come around any and her parents even cancel their annual summer trip to visit her grandmother And now her best friend is going to Mexico for the summer leaving Cindy bored and friendless for three long months trying to interest her mother in something anything and failing Cindy is a great character and it s not hard to feel for her with so much happening in her life in a matter of months. Book Surfboard summer camp Over the course of several trips to the beach Cindy watches the surfers befriends a lonely girl with a limp named Heather and meets Bix What did I say about these nicknames and the rest of the Seaview Surf Club It s not long before Heather and Cindy are taking surf lessons from a real Hawaiian surfer Privately Cindy doesn t think Heather will ever be a good surfer because of her limp a result of polio. Book Surfboard summer solstice Hoot s friend Jeff visits the Allisons He takes Cindy out to dinner where they run into the Seaview Surf Club The members of the SSC show off on the dance floor earning Jeff s disapproval His continued comments and digs about the SSC and Bix in particular upset Cindy who asks to be taken home early I kind of thought Jeff was being obnoxious myself especially since he noticed it was bothering Cindy and kept it up Though not a fan of Bix I was glad to see Jeff leave town Cindy enters a picture of Bix in the newspaper s photography contest and wins Bix is thrilled about the publicity and starts to take notice of her I wish the book had done with Cindy s photography It s something that was mentioned before she met Bix and the surf club so it was a real interest of hers It s also something I m interested in but very inexperienced with so it would have been nice to hear about that That storyline is dropped pretty much as soon as it served its purpose to get Bix to notice Cindy Cindy s friendship with Heather seems to be dropped as well as soon as Cindy starts hanging out with the SSC although she pops up again in an unexpected place. Surfboard summerland Bix enters the whole club including the newly initiated Cindy in different events in a surf competition Bix is attentive as they prepare for competition but only when it comes to surfing He s proud of her when she does well but not as nice when she has trouble in the water or her mother threatens not to let her travel to the surf competition Finally gaining permission Cindy surfs girls heavies big waves and keeps qualifying until she s one of the final two surfers left in the event Bix wins the boys heavies and surprises the club when he enters and wins the boys hot dogging event too. Surfboard summerjobs That s great for Bix and the club but bad for Cindy She s just won the girls heavies event when it s announced that she has to compete against the winner of the girls hot dogging event Rather than sending four surfers on to competition in Hawaii they re only sending two It s a direct consequence of Bix s double win in the boys events I don t know that a real competition could change the rules like that but okay Cindy s competition in this final surf is not Pilar a SSC member but Heather I ve only been surfing once so I m not expert but it seemed a little unbelievable that both Cindy and Heather would start learning to surf at the beginning of the summer and be good enough not just to enter a surfing contest that was big enough to span multiple weeks but also to win their categories These newbies win it all Predictably when Cindy gets distracted and loses to Heather Bix forgets all about her Jerk Fortunately for Cindy Jeff is waiting in the wings He s returned to Seaview and they dance in the living room until Heather calls and invites them to her house There she tells them her news she s moving to the mountains and taking up skiing. Surfboard Summer epub.pub That night as Jeff and Cindy walk along the beach he reveals that he s a surfer too He helps her realize that she didn t win because she didn t want to win I m not sure about that message but this book was written in a different time As summer comes to an end Cindy is looking forward to her senior year with her best friend by her side and a new college boyfriend Things are looking up her mother is even coming out of her depression It will never be the way it was before Hoot s death but the Allisons will be okay Surfboard Summer
Will things ever be right again Cindy Allison asked herself the question hundred times in the months that followed her brother s death And the answer was always the same reflected in the remote stillness of mother s face the empty chair at every meal A house of shadows it was and it seemed to Cindy that the good days were gone forever Then one morning she wandered down to the beach and there in a bright and salty world she found the friends the fun the thrills she longed for There was lovely Heather whose life was shrouded in mystery and whose determination in the face of great handicap was almost beyond belief There was Bix handsome skilled arrogant sought after and all the others who belong to the surfing crowd In just one day Cindy knew she wanted than anything else To be a wahine to ride the waves with the daring that would make required by all this was the answer It was the beginning of the summer Cindy would never forget By the end of it she had discovered solutions to some painful problems New values waiting for her and for her family beyond the most dangerous wave of all Surfboard Summer.
