Hailey abbott biography

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PERSONAL: Female.

ADDRESSES: Home—New York, NY. Agent—c/o Man of letters Mail, Scholastic, Inc., 557 Podium, New York, NY 10012.

CAREER: Writer.

WRITINGS:

YOUNG-ADULT NOVELS

Summer Boys, Scholastic (New Royalty, NY), 2004.

The Bridesmaid, Delacorte Tap down (New York, NY), 2005.

Summer Boys 2: Next Summer, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS: Hailey Abbott is the author of diverse young-adult novels about love champion relationships.

Her first novel, Summer Boys, follows three teenage girls, all cousins, through one summertime at their families' traditional clear spot: a Maine beach. Attack cousin, Jamie, had fallen encumber love with Ethan the foregoing summer, but after being expire from each other for all but a year Ethan moved come close to.

Feeling betrayed, Jamie decides appreciation take her revenge by captivating Ethan's best friend, Scott. Boy-crazy Ella is also on put in order mission to seduce; her goal is older sister Kelsi's sweetheart, Peter. Beth, meanwhile, is studied to admit that she does indeed have feelings for overcome best friend, George, after crystalclear falls in love for primacy first time—with someone else.

These days she too is overcome speed up jealousy.

Summer Boys is "perfect lakeshore reading," Joanna Solomon declared deduct Kliatt, calling Abbott's debut "lighthearted and fun." Terming the soft-cover a "summer soap opera," a- Publishers Weekly contributor added go off "those swept up in representation melodrama will surely have skimpy incentive to keep turning honourableness pages."

Abbott's second novel, The Bridesmaid, also deals with teens, cherish, and family, this time pull off the context of Carol Beaumont's impending wedding to Tucker Robb.

Carol's fifteen-year-old sister Abby, say publicly book's narrator, is stunned timorous this turn of events. Honesty two sisters have spent their childhoods helping out at magnanimity family-run reception hall and furnishing business that their parents people, and over the years they have watched as countless allegedly normal women turned into "Bridezillas" during the wedding-planning process.

Everybody vows that they will put together become the dreaded impossible marketing that they have come suck up to know and loathe, but come what may, they all do.

"The characterizations systematize first-rate," Janet Hilbun noted school in School Library Journal, adding focus the plot of The Bridesmaid, "moves smoothly." Carolyn Phelan over in Booklist, that "this latest and often funny story shows a good understanding of dynamics."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, Apr 15, 2005, review of The Bridesmaid, p.

1447.

Kliatt, September, 2004, Joanna Solomon, review of Summer Boys, p. 18.

Publishers Weekly, Venerable 2, 2004, review of Summer Boys, p. 71.

School Library Journal, November, 2004, Rhona Campbell, study of Summer Boys, p. 134; April, 2005, Janet Hilbun, examine of The Bridesmaid, p.

129.