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Hot Cold Summer

Choose Your Own Ever After
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Hot Cold Summer is an interactive pick-a-path book where readers choose how the story unfolds for Frankie Jones. Facing a long, hot summer, Frankie’s plans change when she either gets a surprise trip to London, where she must confront feelings about her charming friend Jack, or goes on a beach holiday with her dad, his new partner, and her new frenemy Ellie. Readers decide Frankie's journey, exploring themes of friendship, family, and self-discovery.
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A pick-a-path series giving the reader the chance to make the decisions, and choose how the story goes! It's the last day of school and Frankie Jones is looking down the barrel of a long, hot, boring summer with only her guitar for company until ...1. She gets a surprise chance to go to London. She's dying to go - except that it will mean seeing her heartbreakingly cute British friend Jack again. Will things take up where they left off? Or can Frankie finally prove she's over him? 2. Her dad invites her on a beach holiday. But when she discovers her dad's new girlfriend and her daughter Ellie are also coming on their trip, Frankie's not sure how she feels. Will she get to spend any time with her dad at all? Or will she be expected to hang out with Ellie, her new best frenemy? Follow your heart right to the end, or go back and choose all over again.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742977737

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 June 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 234g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Nova Weetman is the author of three books in the cult hitΒ Choose Your Own Ever AfterΒ series – Change of Heart, A Hot Cold Summer andΒ Play the Game. Nova's novels for children and young adults have received numerous award commendations, including Children's Book Council of Australia, the Readings Prize, andΒ the Sisters in Crime Association's Davitt Awards. Her junior fiction series isΒ Noah and Blue’s Zooniverse. Nova has also published numerous short stories and written for television shows such asΒ NeighboursΒ andΒ Backyard Science.Β She wrote the short filmsΒ RipplesΒ andΒ Mr Wasinski’s Song,Β which received anΒ AWGIE nomination and won the Best Australian Short at Melbourne International Film Festival.

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