![]() And the best thing about it, it is immensely fun to read. Now that they can't imagine life without each other, will the two girls (who sometimes call themselves Night Owl and. Night Owl From Dogfish is a very timely book covering many essential topics, also diversity and inclusion. PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.īut things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages OverDrive Product Record sortTitle To Night Owl From Dogfish crossRefId 4029274 images Read by Cassandra Morris and Imani Parks, with Michael Crouch, Sullivan Jones, Bahni Turpin, and Renata Friedman, featuring Cassandra Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Giordon Diaz, Alexandra Harris, Jonathan McClain, Emily Rankin, Abigail Revasch, Erin Spencer, and Emily Woo Zeller Now that they can't imagine life without each other, will the two girls (who sometimes call themselves Night Owl and Dogfish) figure out a way to be a family? Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends-and possibly, one day, even sisters.īut things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. ![]() What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. Bett is African-American and was carried by a Brazilian surrogate, and Avery has both white and Jewish heritages.Ī sweet and amusing tale that celebrates diversity while reinforcing the power of love and the importance of family.From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Īvery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. ![]() Their increasing closeness is tracked in the evolution of their correspondence, which becomes littered with nicknames and discussions of everything from periods and pet phobias to boys. That they will eventually become sisters feels inevitable, but that does not diminish the enjoyment of watching Avery and Bett bond over animals at camp, gradually growing toward each other and then with each other. Sloan and Wolitzer make strategic use of their tale’s epistolary (or rather email) format to create two disparate yet familiar-feeling three-dimensional characters who are from very different worlds. Worse still, the girls are bundled off to a nerd camp where they are expected to bond like family while their dads head off on an eight-week motorcycle adventure in China. So the news that their gay dads fell in love at a conference and have been secretly dating for three months does not sit well with either of them. “The Parent Trap gets a modern makeover in this entertaining and endearing middle-grade novel about two 12-year-old girls, one camp, and a summer that will bond them for a lifetime.Īvery, an aspiring writer from New York, and Bett, a California surfer girl, are the lights of their respective single father’s lives-and each is very much used to it. At the same time, the authors attend closely to the perceptions and interpretations of its young characters - so much so that when Avery extols stories told by unreliable narrators (“the person telling you what happened can’t be trusted with the facts and you have to figure it out”), you should pay attention.” But a sneaky twist at the novel’s end makes it infinitely clear that sometimes the happiness we claim to want for others is instead a projection of our own wants and needs.īuilt on a foundation of absurdity, coincidence and the occasional rather good one-liner, the novel manages the difficult balancing act of using increasingly ridiculous, and often funny, situations to drill home the idea that every close relationship takes hard work, particularly when things start going south. ![]() Whether or not they’ve watched “The Parent Trap,” young readers who identify with Avery and Bett will want to see their fathers prove that true love conquers all. A fraught trip to China wrecks the dads’ relationship, but by then the girls want to force the incompatible couple back together. When the girls attend a summer camp together and bond, the book takes a right-hand turn toward “Parent Trap” territory. Informed by their single dads that they will soon be sisters (despite having never met), the outgoing Bett and the guarded Avery join forces to rend asunder their parents’ romantic plans. “Told in a series of frantic emails and other methods of correspondence, the book chronicles the doomed love story of two men and their canny daughters.
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