The summer of the fortune tellers

Lisa Greenwald

Book - 2025

"Is the magic really back? When Mille, Nora, and Bea found fortune tellers popping up in unexpected places--with eerily accurate fortunes--they reunited as best friends. Now that they're back to being besties, they're excited to spend the summer together outside the city. Recruited into babysitting eight-year-old triplets and staying with Millie's family, the girls are hoping this will be their own private summer camp, one where they're in charge, away from annoying siblings and toxic frenemies. But nothing perfect can last. When everything from homesickness and boy craziness to real estate developers threaten their summer, Millie, Nora, and Bea start stumbling upon fortune tellers in the strangest places. And once ...again it feels like these fortune tellers are speaking to them: 'Sometimes in life you just have to jump in.' 'Speak your mind and stand up for what you believe in!' 'You are here for a reason.' If they speak up, can Millie, Nora, and Bea really save the summer--and the community--before it's too late?"--Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Genres
Novels
Romans
Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Lisa Greenwald (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
256 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780063255906
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Millie, Nora, and Bea, with help from their magical fortune tellers, have patched up their friendship and are looking forward to a summer adventure together. In 2024'sFortune Tellers, a misunderstanding, the pandemic, and family moves separated the longtime friends--until mysterious messages in fortune tellers they'd created years ago led them to reconcile. Now, after Millie invites them to her house on a lake in the Berkshires, the rising eighth graders, who are cued white, are excited--and a little anxious--about being together nonstop for a month. In alternating chapters, each girl reveals her innermost thoughts. During their vacation, the friends will also be running their own little summer camp for 8-year-old triplets. After some discussion about whether to share their special secret, they introduce their charges to the joys of folding paper fortune tellers and writing on them with the magicalWrite Your Destiny markers. Once again, the fortune tellers start delivering messages the girls need to hear, not necessarily the words they wrote, helping them navigate interpersonal conflict, crushes, and family issues. When they decide to protest some proposed commercial development of the area, the fortune teller messages encourage them. Greenwald expertly describes the emotions behind the girls' experiences as well as the commitment that leads them to pledge to be open about their feelings with each other, and Millie's and Nora's Jewish identities are woven into the story. A feel-good tween drama packed with positive life lessons.(Fiction. 8-12) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.