New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book-signing by Tammar Stein who will present selections from her new young adult novel, High Dive on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at noon.
(Recommended for Grades 6 an up) While flying to Europe, Arden, 19, meets three other college students heading for a fun-filled sightseeing tour; fairly typical Americans-in-Paris escapades ensue. But Stein goes beyond the usual in this moving novel about teens on the loose in a foreign country. Arden is more complex than many protagonists in popular teen fiction, and the fun-loving Texans she travels with are sketched with depth as supporting characters.
Arden is on her way to close and sell her family’s cherished vacation home in Sardinia after her father’s death and her mother’s deployment to Iraq as an Army nurse. Her inner musings are significant and subtle as she tries to make sense of the war and the loss of her dad. Readers reminisce with her as she struggles to face losing the only consistent home her small Army family has known.
Tammar Stein is the author of the award-winning novel, Light Years. She has lived in four countries, five states, and attended seven different schools. She currently lives in Florida with her family and bi-lingual dog, who has yet to realize there’s an eight-foot alligator in the pond across the street. She is currently hard at work on her third novel.
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