Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (the read aloud family .txt) 📕

Banks/Kitty Hawk, Cheez-Its (especially whoever came up with kosher bacon-flavored ones), and, of course, Demi Lovato, whose strength and openness constantly awe me.

Most of all, thanks and love to my Adler and Fisch families. I am the luckiest wife, mom, daughter, sister, and aunt in the world, and I am so grateful for everything you make possible.

Also by Dahlia Adler

NOVELS

Behind the Scenes

Under the Lights

Just Visiting

Last Will and Testament

Right of First Refusal

Out on Good Behavior

ANTHOLOGIES (AS EDITOR)

His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

That Way Madness Lies: 15 of Shakespeare’s Most Notable Works Reimagined

 About the Author

DAHLIA ADLER is an editor of mathematics by day, the overlord of LGBTQ Reads by night, and a young adult author at every spare moment in between. She is the editor of the anthologies His Hideous Heart (a Junior Library Guild selection) and That Way Madness Lies, and the author of many novels, including Cool for the Summer. She lives in New York with her family and an obscene number of books. You can sign up for email updates here.

    

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 Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Acknowledgments

Also by Dahlia Adler

About the Author

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

First published in the United States by Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group

COOL FOR THE SUMMER. Copyright © 2021 by Dahlia Adler. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

www.wednesdaybooks.com

Cover design by Kerri Resnick

Cover illustration by Claire Allison

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Adler, Dahlia, author.

Title: Cool for the summer / Dahlia Adler.

Description: First edition. | New York: Wednesday Books, 2021. | Audience: Ages 14-18. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2020053234 | ISBN 9781250765826 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250765833 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. | High schools— Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Bisexuality—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.A25 Coo 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053234

eISBN 9781250765833

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First Edition: 2021