The Trick to Landing by Jenny Kaczorowski

Raised in Avon, Ohio, the duct tape capital of the world, Jenny Kaczorowski began her writing career as a featured columnist for her hometown newspaper. She’ll lose her future-in skating, and with Bastian. If she can’t, she’ll lose more than her second chance.

With the next X Games qualifier rapidly approaching, Summer has to own up to her mistakes if she wants to soar again. When the ramifications of her past crimes collide with his frustration, it may be more than their budding relationship can bear. While he pushes against the limitations of his hemophilia, she is bound by the rules of her probation. Before long, she’s sneaking out for midnight sandcastle building excursions and trading in her art class for private photography lessons with Bastian.īut Summer’s past won’t stay behind her and Bastian has problems of his own – including a bleeding disorder that seeps into every aspect his life. Steady, unassuming, and self-assured, he’s everything she’s not.

The very last thing Summer is looking for is a boyfriend, at least until she meets Sebastian Vega. But her fresh start is even harder than getting back on the half pipe: hours of community service, a party girl reputation she can’t shake, and life with a mother she hardly knows leave Summer scrambling to keep her world stable. When you wipe out in life, who helps you get back up again?Īfter a gnarly fall in competition, a DUI, and moving in with her mom dashed her hopes for a spot in this year’s X Games, 16-year-old skateboarder Summer O’Neill is left with one last shot at redemption.

The Trick to Landing by Jenny Kaczorowski